Tell Us How You Rate Your OPDBMS – We All Get Better Research As a Result
Gartner has launched a new way for client and non-clients to provide input on products to enrich the research we deliver – Gartner Peer Insights. (The link will take you to the OPDBMS page.)...
View ArticleDBMS 2015 Numbers Paint a Picture of Slow but Steady Change
Gartner recently published “Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide, 2015” (for clients) and the story the DBMS data tells continues themes we have been observing for some time in the market....
View ArticleHadoop Apache Project Commercial Support Tracker April 2016
There are now 20 commonly supported projects: Avro, Flume and Solr join the group supported by all 5 distributors and other changes appear as well. For this version of the tracker (last updated in...
View ArticleHadoop Project Commercial Support Tracker July 2016
There are now 15 projects supported by all 5 distributors I track, and several have had new releases since April. Kafka is the newest addition, and I believe the remaining 4-supporter offerings, Mahout...
View ArticleMultiprocessing Nostalgia
My esteemed Colleague Henry Cook offers this trip down memory lane (pun intended) An office email exchange on the history of multi-processors prompted a quick recap, and it was suggested I blog it as...
View ArticleHadoop Tracker – March 2017
Stack expansion has ground to a halt. The last time an Apache project was added to the list of those most supported by leading Hadoop distribution vendors was July 2016, when Kafka joined the other 14...
View ArticleIBM Ends Hadoop Distribution, Hortonworks Expands Hybrid Open Source
IBM has followed Intel and EMC/Pivotal in abandoning efforts to make a business of Hadoop distributions, and followed Microsoft in making Hortonworks its supplying partner. At the former Hadoop Summit,...
View ArticleThe Era of Microsoft on Windows-Only Is Over – OMG
Written by Donald Feinberg and Merv Adrian On 25-Sep-2017 at Ignite, Microsoft announced general availability of SQL Server 2017, now supporting both Windows and Linux platforms, as well as support for...
View ArticleDecember 2017 Tracker – Where’s Hadoop?
The leading 2017 story of Hadoop distributions is that nobody seems to want to be accused of being in the business of providing them. Some former champions are expanding their shiny new positioning:...
View ArticleOpen – For Business – At the ASF
The Apache Software Foundation is about to celebrate an anniversary, and its extraordinary contribution to the economic refactoring of software stacks seems to be gaining more momentum with every...
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