I'm not so sure it's a fine line. I think the two are very different, although folks probably confuse them all too often. I would place a significant distinction between customer support and what we refer to as operations...
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The issue is really a "scoreboard" one. $30 billion RDBMS market; $0 billion NoSQL market. I agree that the analytical database space has shown more progression, but I really see that as a result of how intractable...
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There's a fine line here between what counts as human middleware and what counts as great customer service that sets you apart from competition. Healthcare is a great example of an industry struggling to figure this balance...
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Does that limit just the OEMs or does it lock customers to Bing too? If it just limits OEMs to Bing, that's fair. If the customer doesn't have a choice, it's not going to fly. Microsoft has thoroughly missed...
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I'm hearing that some banks see Hadoop as a tool in meeting regulatory requirements. Banks are having to do stress testing often enough that they need the speed of Hadoop to meet the demand.
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Excellent coverage of all things database. And, yes, the most popular databases of 10 years ago are still market leaders today, but Netezza and Greenplum were just getting the ball rolling on what is now a...
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@PDXnativeson So you're saying Oregon did a superior job of vendor and product evaluation, which led them to select Oracle foundation technologies as the basis of the state health insurance exchange? So where do you see...
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Yes, the state bought some substantial commercial-off-the-shelf systems for database, CRM, and other functions as the basis for the health insurance exchange, but these were to be treated as components of the grand system....
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After the Snowden's leaks, it has obvious that no feature of our digital life is secret. Your messages, photos, videos, whereabouts and preferences leave a lasting blueprint for the NSA. Tor is mainly used to obscure personality...
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It's not horrible but there are some apps that are just clunky inside Bluestacks. Some just plain refuse to rotate to an orientation that is actually usable inside the application. Aside from that it's about...
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Here's to hoping that Nadella brings an innovative spirit to Microsoft. They are long due for this.
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This example is of course extreme, but it highlights one very real problem for mobile providers: With mobile data consumption growing at the rate it is, networks are more heavily congested than ever before. Operators are...
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HI,thanks for the post on chrome's new packaged apps, are there any documentation regarding development for the chrome packaged apps which run ouside the browser in their own window, I have been looking around but all i...
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You can easily backup you apps from iPhone to PC with iPhone Transfer.
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Thank you for broadening my knowledge on this aspect to groom up my skills here.
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I would like to add the download links for the X86 and ARM versions of Windows 8.1 if someone is interested and can't wait for April. Here are the download links to Windows 8.1 Update1 files. (Courtesy of Mydigitallife...
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Good point - we should have a know-how person in the enterprise, who has hands-on experience about security related technologies and the understanding about corportate security. CIO should not be the one who takes full security...
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Yeah -- if software is eating the world, then just about everyone will need to know how to deal with it, male, female, engineer, marketer, accountant. To some small extent this is already happening.
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We have no cell phone reception here, so I am building a cell tower.
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I put on my business website 'You can pay with your mobile phone.
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