DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors, log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.; Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541 "Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts" Key Findings: In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware, software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)

SAP Records Strong Growth, Too

SAP capped off an eventful week of IT-company reports, announcing revenues of 1.7 million euro (approx. $2.21 billion), and profits of 254 mllion euro (approx. $330 million) for the quarter ending March 2005. The figures expressed in euro were up 13 % and 12%, respectively, from a year ago. With the U.S. dollar plunging like a stone against almost all world currencies over the past year, these numbers representing dramatic increases when expressed in dollar terms. Software revenues comprised about a quarter of the company's revenue worldwide.  Significantly, the company broke out its software results in the U.S. against  the business solutions of Oracle and Microsoft and all business of Siebel, claiming a 41% share of the U.S. market., up from what it said was 34% in the same period a year ago. Oracle and SAP have made no secret of their burgeoning rivalry, with Orac... (more)

Re: Seeking cool Web sites that use XHTML + SVG or XHTML+ Math

David Carlisle wrote: >> Can you point me to cool Web sites that use XHTML + SVG or XHTML + >> MathML? > > > there's rather a lot of xhtml+mathml to be found here for example > > http://www.nag.co.uk/numeric/FL/manual/xhtml/mark21.xml We have a lot of content at Connexions with MathML embedded in faux XHTML. We say it's XHTML, but it's not well-formed (e.g. empty elements without closing tags or trailing forward-slashes; this problem is one that our development priorities haven't permitted us to address). However, there's a good bit of Content MathML in there as well, so our site might still be interesting to you. Some examples: http://cnx.org/content/m10224/latest/ http://cnx.org/content/m10127/latest/ http://cnx.org/content/m10250/latest/ http://cnx.org/content/m12857/latest/ Chuck -- Chuck Bearden ([email protected] ; 713.348.3661) XML Engineer, Connexions http://c... (more)

RE: The authority-distribution problem

Negotiated meaning: buy-in from some group informal or formal for documented menanting and rights to change or approve changes to that agreement. Notice the agreement and meaning are two different documents. Costs vary by requirements. If it is a standard, there may be agency/consortia/organization policies for how these decisions are made. If buy-in is not complete you get the OOXML debacle (I won't say which side is the most debac-ed) but the problem is the same. Topic maps provide a means to document agreements as well as a system for implementing them in a readable navigable form. This works well for human readers. RDF and the semantic web provide a means for machines to check agreements and make inferences. A problem with solutions that attempt to document the meaning for multiple communities is they may have different syntactical requirements for documenting t... (more)

RE: Instances changing their type [was:Discover data patterns

> > At a purely practical level, I'm constantly wishing I could > > dynamically change an ArrayList into a LinkedList without having to > > know about all the places that might hold a reference to it. > > Could you please elaborate where this scenario has a > practical use (i.e., at run-time, or within a running > process/thread an ArrayList can be treated as a LinkedList) ? > > In Java, ArrayList and LinkedList both implement the List > interface. I think, in a statically typed language like Java, > what you say might not be possible. I think, in Java to > implement your idea (i.e., swapping ArrayList and LinkedList > behaviour), we can design a new type (some form of list). > You've got two different classes that implement the same interface, but they have different performance trade-offs. But you have to decide which one to use "in advance". If you want to chang... (more)

Is Stealth Startup Fruugo Stumbling Right Before Launch Day?

Rumor has it that Finnish social e-commerce startup Fruugo is burning through a heap of cash, both hiring and firing employees at a rapid pace and dealing with some disappointed potential customers. Caveat: the service hasn’t even been launched yet. Actually, Fruugo seems to have delayed its launch date a number of times already, although at this point they’re likely going for a big push at the upcoming SIME conference, arguably Northern Europe’s largest web event. The company has been in stealth mode to date, and has been signing NDAs with just about anyone they come into contact with. Being secretive and claiming that they will ‘do for online shopping what Google has done for search’ has evidently made Fruugo the talk of the town in Finland’s entrepreneurial community, but it’s still unclear what they’re up to exactly. It’s definitely a serious venture: they’re as... (more)

Re: XML Schema: "Best used with the ______ tool"

Hi Michael, Michael Kay writes: > > That would be the case if we ran only one query. But > > remember, we are testing repetitive access to the data. > > Well, you didn't actually say that. I refer you to my email describing the benchmark: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200812/msg00050.html BTW, it also provides the description of the benchmark in pseudo- code which should be trivial to translate to Java. > > As far as I remember, I stated that in a scenario with > > repetitive access to most of the data, data binding will have > > an advantage. You asked for evidence and I believe I have > > shown that it can certainly be the case. Here are the relevant > > quotes: > > > You also said there would be an advantage for a single query that > accesses most of the data. From this I assume that you are satisfied with the evidence showing that data bind... (more)

Update Twitter, Doogie Howser M.D. Style

I knew someone would eventually nail the perfect service for updating Twitter. That day has come, with the launch of Twoogie, where you can send and view tweets in true Doogie Howser, M.D. style on an IBM PS/2 screen. Just add your username behind the URL to view your Twitter stream the old school way (e.g. TechCrunch). Note that for some reason - could be intentional - it doesn’t always work straight way. To update, you’ll need to log in with your Twitter credentials, so that’s entirely up to you. Twoogie comes straight from Syndeomedia Labs, based in the Philippines and Australia. You can tell us how cool it is or how we write too much about Twitter related stuff in 3, 2, 1 … Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 ... (more)

2009 Tech Prediction Faceoff: J.P Morgan Vs. Barclays Capital

Two notes from Wall Street analysts came to my inbox today with top-ten predictions for what 2009 holds in store for the technology industry. J.P. Morgan’s Imran Khan, for instance, predicts Yahoo and Microsoft will finally strike a search deal, video advertising on the Web isn’t working, retail bankruptcies could actually help e-commerce companies, and that M&A; activity will pick up in the second half of 2009 (but the IPO market will be dead until 2010). Barclays’ Doug Anmuth thinks that both Yahoo and eBay will make major strategic moves this year to try to right their businesses, distribution wars in search will break out between Google and Microsoft, and there will be consolidation among the 300-plus ad networks out there. Both believe that performance-based advertising will continue to rise in importance. Rather than reproduce all 20 predictions from both anal... (more)

SAP Standardizes on Citrix XenServer and XenApp

Citrix Systems, Inc., the global leader in application delivery, today announced that leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) manufacturer SAP AG... Read more at VMblog.com. ... (more)

Re: xsd versioning

"C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" wrote on 03/24/2009 12:07:46 PM: > I have the impression that some implementations may allow the user > to specify different behaviors by using the URIs specified at > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-1/#langids -- but I don't know > that for a fact, and I expect that in any such case the documentation > will say explicitly which URIs are understood and users will > treat them as complicated magic incantations which must be gotten > right, on penalty of error messages.  (In this regard, there is > indeed a strong similarity to namespace names.) In fact we've already started recognizing / supporting a couple of these URIs [1][2] in Xerces-J (future version under development) to allow users to select between XML Schema 1.0 and 1.1 behaviour. Thanks. [1] http://www.w3.org/XML/XMLSchema/v1.0 [2] http://www.w3.org/XML/XMLSchema/v1.1 M... (more)