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Commercialized Open Source (Repost from January 2009)

One nontrivial area of decision making that is of increasing import in recent years involves the choice between open source and commercial products. If you have not yet noticed, a fair number of open source software products have been acquired by commercial firms, and much open source has the backing

New Book Review: "Enterprise Analytics"

New book review for Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data, edited by Thomas H. Davenport, FT Press, 2012, reposted here: This book is a collection of eighteen essays on enterprise analytics by fourteen different authors, ten written or co-written by the editor, who also wrote "

Counterpoint: Defining Big Data

About a month ago, I had the opportunity to attend the Big Data in Finance Day Chicago event at Microsoft Technology Center Chicago. One of my many observations was that it is apparent the industry has not agreed on a definition of "Big Data".The best definition that

Big Data in Finance Day Chicago (September 18, 2012)

Personal notes from Big Data in Finance Day Chicago that I recently attended at Microsoft Technology Center Chicago. In speaking with event organizer and Fountainhead owner Andrew "Shep" Sheppard (a self-described quant by day and meetup organizer by night), following the last session, he mentioned that the first

New Book Review: "The Evolution of Data Products"

New book review for The Evolution of Data Products: The Data that Drives Products is Shifting from Overt to Covert, by Mike Loukides, O'Reilly, 2011, reposted here: While in my opinion this short white paper sized text is not as well written as other entries within the recently

Chicago Big Data: Future of Data Processing with Apache Hadoop (August 21, 2012)

Personal notes from the Chicago Big Data meeting this past week at 1871 at Merchandise Mart, a tech hub for startups which opened just over 3 months ago, led by Bobby Evans, a developer and tech lead at Yahoo! Arun Murthy, founder and architect at Hortonworks, was planning to present

New Book Review: "Portlets in Action"

New book review for Portlets in Action, by Ashish Sarin, Manning Publications, 2011, reposted here: In just having recently completed a development project creating portlets for the first time with a Java Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR 286) compliant portal server, I hope I can provide some insight into the

From the Trenches: IBM WebSphere WMB, WTX, MQ

At the moment, I am resurfacing after having spent nearly the last 6 months in the trenches of IBM WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) 6.1.0.9, IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) 8.2.0.4, and IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0, a set of products that were inherent constraints

New Book Review: "To the Cloud"

New book review for To the Cloud: Cloud Powering the Enterprise, by Pankaj Arora, Raj Biyani, and Salil Dave, McGraw-Hill, 2012, reposted here: The authors of this text rightly explain in their introduction that the path to cloud adoption is bound to be different for every firm. Because much of

New Book Review: "The Cloud at Your Service"

New book review for The Cloud at Your Service: The When, How, and Why of Enterprise Cloud Computing, by Jothy Rosenberg and Arthur Mateos, Manning, 2011, reposted here: Potential readers of this text, especially those familiar with Manning, might be interested in knowing that in their preface, the authors indicate