Friday, October 30, 2009

Aweekstweets October 25-November 1 2009

Aweekstweets October 25-November 1 2009

SUNDRY WHATEVER TWEETS: JK2---Yes, I love music, plus verbiage, beverage, reportage—as well as dwelling on this age and signs of my aging.

  • I only have one symbol in my handy emoticon vocabulary: the winking/in-confidence/between-you&me eye: ;-). My Latin vocabulary far richer.11:39 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2--I’ve always felt that emoticon resembles a nervous eye tic. So it makes sense that I favor it.
  • FYI, "sine qua non": without this, nothing: absolutely essential element for success. It's actually in my working vocabulary of handy Latin.11:35 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Which reminds me. What does The Onion’s motto “tu stultus es” mean? Is it real Latin? My guess: “You are stupid.”
  • Monday Morning Wake-Up Song of the Day: Ulrich Schnauss "A Clear Day" from "A Strangely Isolated Place." UK-based ambient electronica artist8:23 AM Oct 26th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Ulrich is UK-based. I suppose you thought he was from Dusseldorf or wherever in Germany. Did you realize that folk singer-guitarist Jose Gonzales is from Sweden? True. He was born in Argentina, but his family immigrated when he was young. This archaic notion of nationality needs to treated as the mighty mashup that it truly is. I’m a hypermongrelizing American, so I know this stuff from birth.
  • Listening to XTC "Senses Working Overtime." To wit: "Trying to take this all in..tell the diff btwn a lemon & a lime" Ain't that the truth!3:00 PM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—It’s very important for me to unload my sensory cache regularly so I can breathe easier. Tweeting, blogging, chatting, meeting, schmoozing—so now you know me a bit better. As if you didn’t already sense all this.
  • This tweet sponsored by "Tazo Organic Iced Green" brand all-natural green tea w/ spearmint & lemongrass. Actually, not sponsored--but good!12:44 PM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—It’s non-filling, non-jangling, non-tooth-decaying. And it comes in a solid glass bottle with a resealable cap. A perfect tweeting tea.
  • RT @donalddotfarmer "'CNN Global Minute'...all...news u need?" JK-CNN is to hi-quality journalism what Bazooka Joe comix R to graphic novels12:37 PM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—OK, that was a bit harsh. In all fairness, Wolf Blitzer doesn’t have an eye patch or pull a turtleneck up over his mouth.
  • No, I won't pay for Hulu on-demand programming. I rarely spend time watching TV of any form any more. Don't need additional sedentary habits12:17 PM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Which is why I tweet standing up whenever I get the opportunity.
  • Fairly fed up with most US continuous news cable channels. Just no journalistic depth. Only one I learn something from is ABC News.12:14 PM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—I regularly turn to ABC News’ cable channel on my Verizon FIOS at home to get a deep dive and broad context that the sensationalistic partisan-compromised breaking-newshound channels just seem incapable of.
  • RT @rwang0 @kitson "Morrissey is 50...I can't be the only one troubled by this." JK--With ya. I mope about his age as much as mine (50->51)1:52 AM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Morrissey was prematurely old in his/our 20s. He’s growing into a physically appropriate curmudgeonly mopage-dotage. I like to believe I’m avoiding the mopage-dotage fate. Let’s wait and see.

SUNDRY TECH TWEETS: JK2---Yes, I continue to mash up all my current focus areas (predictive analytics, data mining, data warehousing, BI, etc.) with all my priors (identity management, messaging/collab, network/app security, etc.), and throw in all my key cross-cutting themes (cloud, social networking/media, SOA, virtualization, etc).

  • RT @SethGrimes: @ManyaMayes “entity analytics?” JK—Identity (of people, groups, things, objects, etc) analytics (classify, associate, link)4:43 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Essentially, this is at the core of the MDM focus on governance of the definition of vocabularies for domain entities (customers, employees, organizations, products, finances, etc).
  • WashPost just emailed first “afternoon update” to my morning paper. What if hardcopy reverted to Sunday-only digest, w/ daily email updates?4:07 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Essentially, this is going to happen, and sooner than we like to think. The Washington Post, great traditional newspaper that it is, continues to run at a loss, and lose classified ad revenues.
  • Upgraded to TweetDeck v0.31.3 this A.M. Funny how tiny little visualization enhance—tweet goes white-background on-click—makes big diff.1:58 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Seriously. User-personalized, interactive, flexible visualization is so fundamentally important to the future of Twitter and all other social media tools. If we’re going to live and breathe in these environments, we need to feng-shui them to our idiosyncratic hearts’ delight. I love the black-on-white display of traditional paper-based news delivery.
  • RT @cmooreforrester: #IOD2009 "ERP structures biz process;BI measures [it]+pred analytics optimizes [it]" JK--Keys to predictive enterprise8:06 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—For me, predictive enterprise is the uber-theme of this past week’s Vegas conferences: IBM beginning to absorb SPSS, SAS continuing to deepen its data mining value-prop, and SAP continuing to ignore predictive analytics, and settle deeper into its core-BI rut, at its competitive peril.
  • Usual first-thing-in-morning e-mailing activity: moving false positives from spam folders, moving false negatives to everlasting oblivion.8:26 AM Oct 26th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Reminds me: Spam filters everywhere should incorporate inline predictive models that can be auto-trained, auto-scored, and auto-updated to assess the spam-likelihood of inbound stuff, but to auto-learn from each of our “move to inbox” “leave in spam folder” and “delete obvious spam or leave to moulder in bulk mail folder” behavior.
  • Curious whether someone's running bimbo-bot generating bogus babe-lure Twitter followme requests when sees tweets re Las Vegas. Been getting12:01 PM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—There seems to be this cultural assumption that male business travelers to Las Vegas are surreptitious (actual or potential) sex tourists. Dear Twitter-body-botters: Please opt me out of that annoying assumption.
  • “The Web’s Creator Tweets” (http://bit.ly/2TLSZz) @timberners_lee: JK—Hey Tim, how’s about them Twitter hashtags? Semantic Web or apostasy?11:54 AM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—OK, at this point, 10 years or more into this “Semantic Web” initiative, let’s stop pretend this is the next big tech-religion thing. And let’s give up this “Web 3.0” branding on its all. Tim’s got his knighthood, but his Holy Grail quests feels a bit quixotic at this point.
  • RT @JeromePineau "Does it sound like this ... when you read stuff about clouds? http://bit.ly/fGipU" JK--Yep: nebulosity key cloud criterion11:30 AM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—The zeitgeist cloud on this will pass. As soon as it precipitates the mature, pervasive, distributed, ubiquitous enterprise-grade environment of the coming decade. Which is almost here.

SUNDRY ANALYST-LIFE TWEETS: JK2---Yes, I’m a road warrior who loves to reconnect with my peers/friends/colleagues/competitors at these events. I live for it.

  • Notion that industry analyst is invited party crasher really applies. Vendors love having us around. Then we start calling 'em as we see 'em12:49 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Vendors actually want us to challenge them. They’re doubly impressed when we can do it persuasively. And when we can hold a drink or two while doing it. And when we can do it over and over. To the extent we’re still being invited to their tables, in spite of what we tweeted last night, we’re doing our job. To the extent we’re not being invited to their table, all the better: that means we’ve identified their true competitive sore-points.
  • Wait a darn minute: I can tell Hackathorn v. Winter. Check my Facebooked foto of Hackathorn from Mon. Blame it on desert dust! Or exhaustion2:57 PM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Actually, blame it on somebody else at a vendor-sponsored party saying I have to meet Richard Winter, and then leading me to Richard Hackathorn. I was tired and stressed from trying to carry on a lively tech conversation in a noisy room. Momentary “Huh? Where am I?” brain fart.
  • Sitting here in hotel room working on my #Forrester PA/DM Wave scoring.1:27 PM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Speaking of being tired and stressed on the road, even in a quiet room by myself, when my head is noisy.
  • RT @JAdP: @NeilRaden @jameskobielus @rwang0 "At 53, I'm planning my next 2 careers." JK--Going on 51, I'm into my third quarter-life!11:55 AM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—First Q-life: education. Second Q-life: building. Third Q-life: capstoning.

VEGAS TWEETS: JK2---Yes, Vegas is a city that I’ve visited far more times on business over the past few years than I care count. The smart money is on me continuing to have to go there as a central requirement of my job as industry analyst.

  • OK, Vegas fancypants THEhotel: None of this "hair cleanser" "hair masque" "body balm" hoohah! Why not THEshampoo, THEconditioner, THElotion?19 minutes ago from TweetDeck
    • JK2—I have to be careful not to condition with lotion. Same color. Same bottle size/shape. Funny names I have to read through watery eyes and translate through tired mind.
  • Seriously ferocious winds in Vegas today. On the positive side, mostly sunny, and pleasantly (for jacketed people) cool.about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck
    • JK2—When it’s not the middle of the broiling summer, and your sinuses have adjusted to the particulate matter in the air, Vegas is a fairly pleasant outdoor environment to walk around in. Away—as far as possible—from the Strip.
  • Las Vegas is such an extraordinarily efficient high-thruput biz conf city. When's last time Obama came here to do anything but give speech?11:44 AM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—While we’re on the subject, when’s the last time I came to do anything but attend a tech show? 1994, specifically: stop on multi-city consulting trip. Before then: 1976—family driving tour of the country.
  • Cool air in Las Vegas tonight. Cooler coming. Refreshing desert breeze will build to stiff desiccating stay-inside batten-everything wind.12:39 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Did it ever?!!! Glad I kept my lip balm handy.
  • Early morning Vegas. City Ctr project appears nearing completion. Thrill to watch first rays of rising sun glint off its towering insolvency10:44 AM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—It’s fun to walk around and contemplate all the massive at-risk investments that are not mine.
  • Definitely delaying that lunch. First 24 hours in Vegas always stealthy brutal on the system. No need to binge anything from the get-go.3:09 PM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Acclimating to Vegas requires a week at last. I never stay that long. Hence, I’m always slightly off on business in this city.
  • Predawn Vegas. Always tough to find decent breakfast. Walked harrowing Sinatra, cut to Harrah's, down Strip till sidewalk narrows. Starbucks10:42 AM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Seriously. Why don’t they put a decent IHOP or Dunkin’ Donuts on the Strip?

SAP TWEETS: JK2---Yes, I made good on my commitment to do three Vegas vendor shows in 3 days. Shoulda also made Penn & Teller, just to lighten things up.

  • RT @nenshad "SAP R&A conf...SAP's reptg options... No product strategy?" JK--Some of that: BOBJ Voyager, EPM. Mostly best practices, though.about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck
    • JK2—But these were nothing new. SAP re-presenting roadmaps that they’d long ago brought to the attention of Forrester and other analysts, not to mention their customers.
  • SAP R&A conf. Attendees mostly SAP ERP R/3 users, who may/may-not have Ntwvr BI/BW and/or BOBJ. Vendor/users tend/extend massive legacy.about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck
    • JK2—SAP’s burden and boon. Some vendors would die for such problems. Some vendors will die trying.
  • SAP R&A conf. Caught talk on SAP's EPM Suite roadmap: v7.5 (this year), v.8.0 (2011). Two years till next major rev? Why so long a wait?about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck
    • JK2—I fear that BOBJ’s product development and innovation metabolism has slowed to a sluggish trickle as more SAP runs through its veins.
  • SAP Rptg & Analytics conf. Caught talk on SAP's reptg options: R/3, BW, & BOBJ. Blessing of flexibility or vexation of complexity & legacy?about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck
    • JK2—I think it’s more the latter. SAP needs to migrate R/3 customers as soon as possible to full BOBJ stack on BI front end, and to migrate BW customers to BWA (but with BWA expanding in scope to offer a truly enterprise-grade, scalable, high-performance, real-time, massively parallel EDW appliance for hub-and-spoke, federated, and cloud deployment).

SAS TWEETS: JK2---Yes, my primary research focus right now is in-database analytics which is the convergence of my two core Forrester coverage areas: predictive analytics and data mining (PA/DM) and data warehousing (DW).

  • Had a very stimulating day at SAS #M2009 at Caesars. The dinner with the SAS team was fun. Social media, text analytics, shape of the futureabout 23 hours ago from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Manya Mayes drilled me for vision on integration of social media (current and future) with text analytics, BI, PA/DM, EDW, and cloud. Well, “drilled” is too harsh a word: She engaged me in an interactive brainstorming session over a delicious meal, surrounded by herself and other smart/nice SAS products people.
  • SAS #M2009: Very research-infused conference. Section of the exhibit floor dedicated to PA/DM projects from higher ed. I learned stuff!8:15 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—My mnemonics for SAS are one part “subject area specialists” and one part “statistical and analytical software.” Both SAS facets were in abundance at the show.
  • SAS #M2009. What SAS & Aster are discussing sets stage for radical scaling of SAS predictive analytics: regression, scoring, data prep, etc.5:39 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—And I expect SAS to continue engaging with Teradata—and with other large DW vendors (Aster’s a startup, of course)—to keep pushing that envelope on the EDW platforms in which their customers have invested.
  • SAS #M2009. SAS' Shamlin sez: "Aster is a lovely thing to SAS. Aster 'ecosystem' is open and extensible to us."5:30 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Aster has painstakingly architected their platform for openness and extensibility with all partners, not just SAS.
  • SAS #M2009. EDW as analytic app server? Tell us more. Well, you can check out my recent #Forrester tconf, or #TDPUG preso, or coming report5:20 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Coming out 2 weeks from now, my editors tell me.
  • Remember @ManyaMayes and everybody forevermore: i before e except after c and especially if it's me no i before u so u no wot to do.4:53 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Me enforcing my “personal brand nomenclature orthography” with SAS and the world through this tweet. A losing battle. I’m vigilant about all the misspellings and mispronunciations. James Kobielus-brand caffeinated anlaysis.
  • SAS #M2009. NEvangelopoulos, U-Nrth TX: "Understanding Latent Semantics in Textual Data." Assoc txt with root social idea-belief constructs4:00 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—To be honest, my brain glazed over. But he clearly knew what he was talking about. Great audience Q&A.
  • Conferences such as #M2009 are key recurring industry events where predictive analytics and data mining professionals share best practices.2:03 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—IBM’s and SAP’s shows this week were also excellent in that respect.
  • SAS #M2009, Kim Larsen, Charles Schwab, "Net Lift Prediction Models": core topic in evaluating model quality, robustness, predictive power2:01 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Model quality is the sine qua non of the predictive enterprise. Invalid business models drive businesses out of business.
  • SAS #M2009. Got great update from John Brocklebank on SAS' social network analysis tools and on customer applications. Very impressive.1:48 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—SAS has a significant headstart on the industry in research and commercialization of social network analysis.
  • SAS #M2009. Berthold/Univ.Konstanz. Interactively labeling images. Discussing the relative accuracy and uncertainty of various classifiers.12:39 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—He discussed his research in detail.
  • SAS #M2009, Berthold, UnivKonstanz. Interactively learn classifiers of images: bio expert labels examples w/ auto-classify rest (20M imgs)12:25 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—This is such fundamentally important research for the age of social media. I absolutely must read the original research at my nearest opportunity.
  • SAS #M2009:Neafsey/Ford's awesome PA/DM dictum: "If don't start with good segmentation, you'll be chasing mirage." Sine qua non of targeting11:34 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—It’s all about understanding the real customer: past, present, future. Not seeking out reinforcing evidence for your self-serving stereotype of the customers as you wish they were.
  • SAS #M2009, Neafsey/Ford:"Junky data makes junky segmentations. Sometimes simplest segmentation is best." Right: don't overcomplicate models11:30 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Dwelling on the underlying stat and math of these models, overcomplication is an occupational hazard.
  • RT @swaynette: "Tuesday's #M2009 Agenda http://bit.ly/2MqJuM Try "Advanced Analytics on Multi-Terabyte Datasets" at 3 pm" JK--I'll be there11:27 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—The SAS/Aster Data preso.
  • SAS #M2009 , Neafsey/Ford. Customer stat segmentation enables rollup into "voice of the customer," w/o need for myths anecdotes hunches11:04 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Fact-based predictive enterprise. Not fiction-based.
  • SAS #M2009, Neafsey/Ford. "Whiz kids" (R McNamara et al.) in 50s/60s instilled deep Ford analytics culture, which remains strong.11:02 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Too bad McNamara didn’t apply fact-based predictive modeling to our Vietnam fiasco. Clearly, he didn’t predict soon enough the fate we experienced. Or, maybe he didn’t, but his customer (LBJ, and the US at that time) was in love with myth anecdote hunch—of the fictional self-serving variety.
  • Looking forward to full day at SAS #M2009 today. Data mining projects, though deep on math/stat, are always fascinating at biz-level too.8:00 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—SAS’s M2009 conference was in fact primarily business-focused, but with a strong grounding in statistical and mathematical research.

IBM TWEETS: JK2---Yes, I’m positive on IBM’s SPSS acquisition, and many other information management initiatives. But IOD often leaves me a bit dissatisfied: it’s not the best environment for deep drilldown on the IBM offerings and directions in which I’m most interested.

  • RT @craigmullins: #IOD2009 "attending stream computing overview" JK--IBM InfoSphere Streams--CEP w/ embedded pred analytics--is pioneering8:08 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---InfoSphere Streams has a proprietary language—called SPADE—for developing a pipeline or workflow of CEP processes that may include inline predictive analytics. I see SPADE as the forerunner of what hopefully will be CEP-oriented extensions to SQL-MR to process information in motion with as much agility as information at rest.
  • Yesterday & today, here in LV, I've been meeting with the most vertical-savvy adv analytics vendors: IBM/Cognos (#IOD2009) & SAS (#M2009).1:56 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—I should also mention SAP in that respect. By “vertically savvy” I mean that they have the widest range of industry-specific analytics solutions, including logical domain models and solution accelerators. I also mean that their product teams, partner ecosystems, and consulting groups are organized by verticals.
  • Going down to the exec breakfast with Ambuj. #IOD2009.8:48 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Ambuj gave a good talk about IBM’s laser focus on delivering solutions that help customers achieve what he calls “information-led transformation.” It’s clear to me that IBM GBS’ Business Analytics and Optimization (BAO) consultant force is their focus on delivering this customer value. The products groups will increasingly provide platforms, packaged apps, and tools that incorporate logical domain models and solution accelerators developed in partnership with GBS/BAO.
  • RT @dadicool: "any plans to blog about what you learned during this [#IOD2009] conversation [re IBM Smt An Sys pricing?]" JK--Most certainly8:20 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—I will, as soon as IBM gets me that info. Still waiting.
  • Still pondering flat per-TB pricing on IBM Smart Analytics System solution appliances, announced today at #IOD2009. Still awaiting details.12:52 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—C’mon Jeff. I’ll have to ping you this week.
  • Hardly ate tonight. Hardly drank. Hardly had the hot tech discussions of the day subsided when cool evening chat on all the same got going.12:49 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—My brain was friend at the end of the day. But I recover reasonably well. I walk it off.
  • Reflecting on very interesting discussion w IBM execs on vertical pkging of IBM Smart Analytics Sys appliances leveraging Cognos blueprints.12:44 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—But I still need to see the details on which Cognos blueprints are incorporated into which ISAS versions.
  • Very good dinner conversation at #IOD2009 with Deepak Advani, Peter Griffiths, and Erick Brethenoux of IBM on advanced analytics--and life!11:20 PM Oct 26th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—I think Cognos and SPSS will complement each other nicely. But I’m still waiting for a more concrete roadmap for them to work together. Both are focused on “new analysts”—i.e., average information workers wanting to mashup their own BI views (Cognos) and build their own predictive models (SPSS). Make this stuff pervasive.
  • IBM has strong heterogeneous in-db analytics story with SPSS. The acquired vendor has integrated with most DW/DBMS platforms from long back.5:16 PM Oct 26th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—SPSS models can be exported through a wide range of interfaces to a wide range of third-party DW/DBMSs, enabling regression and scoring to be handled efficiently on the target platforms.
  • IBM #IOD2009 will soon open advanced analytics R&D centers in WashDC and London. Already in China and NYC. Significant investment.4:42 PM Oct 26th from web
    • JK2—That’s a very significant corporate commitment to advanced analytics. It will pay off richly for IBM in empowering smart researchers the world over to apply sophisticated mathematical models to a wide range of business and scientific problems.
  • IBM #IOD2009 has launched DB2 PureScale for extreme scaling for OLTP apps. But where intersect with InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse strategy?4:41 PM Oct 26th from web
    • JK2—I didn’t see any clear overlap. Considering that Oracle positions Exadata v2 as a combination DW/OLTP machine, that was a significant gap in IBM’s go-to-market messaging on the PureScale release.
  • IBM #IOD2009 has key diff in predictive analytics: in-stream live-CEP mining through InfoSphere Streams, now able import models via PMML.4:39 PM Oct 26th from web
    • JK2—That means that, in theory, any predictive analytics or data mining tool that implements PMML (i.e., them all) can publish models to real-time streams. I’m curious whether, how, and when the PA/DM tool vendors will adapt their tools to support regression, scoring, and assessment of CEP-optimal models.
  • IBM #IOD2009 has interesting Hadoop strategy. Looking forward to my discussions with Advani, Powers, Brethenoux, etc later.4:36 PM Oct 26th from web
    • JK2—But IBM still hasn’t productized Hadoop in its DW and PA/DM strategies. A lot of these futures stories were left largely unaddressed at this year’s IOD. I expect MapReduce/Hadoop, InfoSphere Streams, SPADE, DW/OLTP integration, and ISAS to be key focus areas at next year’s IOD.
  • IBM #IOD2009 has made predictive analytics uber-theme. Excellent talks by Mills/Goyal/Krishna/Advani, etc. Ample vision/solutions/customers.4:35 PM Oct 26th from web
    • JK2—This theme was obvious at the event itself. In the run-up to the event, in the pre-briefings, there was no clear big theme, other than the underwhelming “information-led transformation.”
  • IBM #IOD2009 discussed pricing on new Smart Analytics System solution appliances. Purely per-TB for whole stack, incl. deployment svcs!4:30 PM Oct 26th from web
    • JK2—If so (per Arvind Krishna on the dais at lunch at IOD), that approach--flat per-TB pricing on ISAS solutions--would seriously disrupt the DW market. But I’m still waiting for confirmation.
  • Thanks to IBM's T. Inman, A. Warzecha, D. Laverty, S. Soares, A. Ramirez, R. Rusting, & D. Dorman for well-done #IOD2009 partner showcase10:37 PM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—My third year in a row co-judging the IOD partner showcase. Hope to keep the streak going.
  • Vegas for IOD 2009: my 4th straight. Mandalay Bay always great convention venue. THEhotel is fave LV hotel: non-Vegas-y minimalistic decor10:54 AM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—The rooms are tidy, elegant, well-appointed, comfortable, and quiet.
  • Vegas for IOD 2009. As usual, IBM has so many announcements planned for tomorrow that I can barely wrap my head around them all. Good stuff.10:46 AM Oct 25th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—I have to diagram them to myself, then stare at the diagram. Still, I always leave stuff out, even after I double-check my pre-briefing notes.

SUNDRY OTHER VENDOR-LY TWEETS: JK2---No, I’m not just paying attention to the vendors whose shows I’m attending in any given week.

  • Discuss Netezza's in-db analytics capabilities in my soon-to-publish #Forrester report. Important for its adv analytics ISV partners.1:53 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—Just today (back at home) I saw another Netezza solution-partner press release: “Netezza Teams with NetIQ to Provide a Comprehensive Enterprise Data Compliance & Security Solution.” Netezza’s TwinFin platform is in big demand by both enterprises customers and ISVs looking for a scalable analytics platform.
  • Recent Oracle press release with 26 named Exadata customers: http://bit.ly/1DWz6F.12:36 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—I hope Oracle circulates a list of Exadata v2 customers within the first 6 months after shipping the platform (due to go GA within a month or so).
  • RT @davewiner: Amazon Releases Relational Database As A Service. http://bit.ly/2EInZZ JK--Wow. Geared for DW, BI, analytics? Briefing? Demo?1:03 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2—MySQL in the cloud. Ironic that MySQL is the big cloud over Oracle’s plans to acquire Sun. Hopefully, Oracle’s acquisition of Sun won’t be rendered asunder by regulatory dunderheads.

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