The regulations for data use are equally complex in the U.S. just not as transparent or consumer friendly.

Just buy socks from one day of the week.

Do you have a link to their architecture? They have a need for ACID that facebook and google and dropbox do not.

When you start talking about over a 100,000 nodes to handle data you probably have scaled out of the size of RDBMS.

The organization I work for has hundreds of customers in a vertical space. We and our competitors have a pretty broad reach in our vertical. 

People you approach in...

How prevalent is the behavior described here? 5% or 50% of the companies surveyed?

I use mediawiki because it is open source, has a familiar interface and pretty good support.

Hosting and service costs are a major concern.

Maybe I'll get you to make some timeless webinars after all 🙂

Much of the travel I see is for the benefit of the speakers rather than the only...

It seems like the IT staff wants to have control over the hiring and firing at the people at an organization. I don't want them to. I do my best...