Sun vs Open Source
As you might know, there’s not a lot of OS database modelling stuff out there, but for MySQL databases, it was easy: we all used DBDesigner. It was open source, did forward and reverse engineering and...
View ArticlePerformance Management, Vacation style
The past few weeks were dedicated to my racing bike, lying in the sun, spending time with my family, sleeping in, do some sight seeing and cultural trips and being with friends. Well, those were my...
View ArticleUntil 'Madison' arrives, Microsoft SQL Server runs faster on Linux
Visitors of the latest BI summit of the Seattle based software giant were awed by a first demo of project Madison, which is basically a Windows/SQL Server based version of the recently acquired...
View ArticleBye bye Google Apps
Last summer I decided to give up my locally managed Email service and switch to a Premier Edition Google apps account. Sounded great, 25GB of mail storage and guaranteed uptime of 99,9% in any given...
View ArticlePentaho & MySQL tutorial at T-Dose
T-DOSE is a free and yearly event held in The Netherlands to promote use and development of Open Source Software. During this event Open Source projects, developers and visitors can exchange ideas and...
View ArticlePentaho & MySQL tutorial at T-Dose
T-DOSE is a free and yearly event held in The Netherlands to promote use and development of Open Source Software. During this event Open Source projects, developers and visitors can exchange ideas and...
View ArticleDutch Open Source conference
On October 28 IBM, Accenture and Redhat will organize a general interest Open Source conference covering a broad range of topics ranging from operating systems and cloud computing to CMS and... BI!...
View ArticleDutch Open Source conference
On October 28 IBM, Accenture and Redhat will organize a general interest Open Source conference covering a broad range of topics ranging from operating systems and cloud computing to CMS and... BI!...
View ArticleWhere are the open source analytical databases?
Over the last few months several announcements have been made by different vendors having blended open source BI solutions with high speed analytical databases. Though this might seem good news at...
View ArticleEclipse DemoCamps & Holland Open Drink
During November and December 2008, individuals are invited to organize and attend Eclipse DemoCamps around the world. The Eclipse DemoCamps are an opportunity to showcase all of the cool interesting...
View ArticleEclipse DemoCamps & Holland Open Drink
During November and December 2008, individuals are invited to organize and attend Eclipse DemoCamps around the world. The Eclipse DemoCamps are an opportunity to showcase all of the cool interesting...
View ArticleWho's going to buy SPSS?
2009 will be a turning point for the so called 'business analytics' market. While ETL, reporting and OLAP have become more of a commodity and merely belong to the basic set of tools needed for doing...
View ArticleOpen Source Data Warehousing?
The economic downturn is causing an increasing interest in using open source (OS) solutions for BI. One of my previous blogposts already raised the issue of the missing pieces in open source analytical...
View ArticleOpen Source Data Warehousing?
The economic downturn is causing an increasing interest in using open source (OS) solutions for BI. One of my previous blogposts already raised the issue of the missing pieces in open source analytical...
View ArticleMonetDB releases new version
It's not even on the MonetDB website, but the new February 2009 release has been uploaded to the MonetDB download area. The good news: native installers for Debian and Ubuntu added, both 32 and 64 bit....
View ArticleOpen Source BI Survey online
Please participate in this survey developed by Mark Madsen
View ArticleInteresting TDWI post
The latest post on the TDWI site by Stephen Swoyer about bulk load performance contains several paragraphs written by Jos van Dongen based on his TPC-H SF100 load experiments. Please beware that there...
View ArticlePentaho book on Amazon!
The Pentaho Solutions book can already be pre-ordered on Amazon. It only needs finalizing (writing the last chapters, copy editing, expert review, author review, 2nd editing round) and printing
View ArticleCommunity Choice Awards 2009
The best Open Source projects can now be nominated for the Community Choice Awards 2009. Fill in your entries here:
View ArticlePentaho and Infobright deliver virtual OS BI solution
People still hesitating to take a peek at open source BI solutions are now served with the easiest way by far to have a complete BI solution in operation within minutes (!). Pentaho and Infobright have...
View ArticleIT Works Open Source BI
On June 4, 2009 Jos van Dongen will be your host during a full-day Open Source BI seminar for IT Works in Brussels (Belgium). The seminar gives you a thorough overview of existing and emerging...
View ArticleTDWI Munich
On June 15-17 the annual European TDWI event will take place in Munich. I'll be presenting a data mining course together with Mark Madsen.
View ArticleLucidera calls it quits
Lucidera, a BI SaaS vendor that heavily relied on open source technology, announced that they will end business by the end of the month. Read the full story here.
View ArticlePentaho book near finish
The Pentaho Solutions book Roland and I have been working on since last year is near publication. Great cover, isn't it? ps. here's a sneak preview of the reporting chapter
View ArticleOpen Source & Dutch Politics
No, this isn't about the Dutch government and their efforts to promote Open Source & Open Standards, but during the trip back home from our holiday destination the following analogy occurred to...
View ArticleOpen Source & Dutch Politics
No, this isn't about the Dutch government and their efforts to promote Open Source & Open Standards, but during the trip back home from our holiday destination the following analogy occurred to...
View ArticleHardware adventures
I've been assembling computers for over 10 years now, and even built PC based rack mounted servers for a company I was involved in. The advantages of building your own machines are of course the lower...
View ArticleHardware adventures
I've been assembling computers for over 10 years now, and even built PC based rack mounted servers for a company I was involved in. The advantages of building your own machines are of course the lower...
View ArticleBook is published!
I haven't got my copy yet, but those in the US who pre-ordered 'Pentaho Solutions' got it yesterday. Here's the Pentaho team showing the fruits of our labor: Also see Gretchen Moran's first impressions...
View ArticlePraise for 'Pentaho Solutions'
Reactions to the new Pentaho book I wrote together with Roland Bouman are all very positive. I especially like the extended reviews on Amazon, but the following Tweet by Mark Dathorne really blew me...
View ArticlePentaho, quo vadis?
The acquisition Today Pentaho announced the acquisition of parts of the LucidEra BI solution (formerly called 'ClearView') to replace the current OLAP client JPivot. For the past couple of years JPivot...
View ArticlePentaho, quo vadis?
The acquisition Today Pentaho announced the acquisition of parts of the LucidEra BI solution (formerly called 'ClearView') to replace the current OLAP client JPivot. For the past couple of years JPivot...
View ArticleArray Open Source BI seminar
On November 15, 2009 Jos van Dongen will be your host during a full-day Open Source BI seminar for Array in Nieuwegein (Netherlands). The seminar gives you a thorough overview of existing and emerging...
View ArticleExcel taking the BI crown in 2010?
2010 is well on its way and many of you posted their insights and predictions for the upcoming year. No need to add to those posts; the ones by Nenshad Bardoliwalla (with some excellent comments from...
View ArticleTPC-H fun with Greenplum (single node edition)
Introduction There's a nice quote on the Greenplum site from Brian Dolan, Fox Interactive Media which says “Very impressed with the speed... 3 minutes to do a sum on 100 million rows of data”. That...
View ArticleWhat's missing in Gartners latest BI MQ?
I haven't seen the full text yet but did get hold of the MQ image from this Oracle blog that also contains some interesting observations and snippets from the full text. What you don't see however in...
View ArticleParaccel does it again?
Today analytic database vendor Paraccel announced another record breaking TPC-H benchmark result for the 1TB size segment. There are indeed a couple of things to be proud of here: the Price/QphH now...
View ArticleInfiniDB: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Last week the BBBT was visited by startup database company Calpont, although 'startup' hardly fits the bill considering the fact that the company was founded in 2000. I won't go into the company nor...
View ArticleBeyond Big Data: the silent trends in IT & BI
Intro As the end of 2012 is nearing, many analyts and market watchers are posting their insights on how 2013 will look like, what major trends can be seen and how we should prepare ourselves for...
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