BigDataOnCloud + FreeDB2 » EnterpriseDB http://freedb2.com Big Data, Hadoop, free databases and a whole lot of Cloud Computing Thu, 10 May 2012 22:49:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Sneak a peek at the DB2 future if you are at IDUG in Anaheim http://freedb2.com/2011/05/01/a-peek-at-the-db2-future-if-you-are-at-idug-in-anaheim/ http://freedb2.com/2011/05/01/a-peek-at-the-db2-future-if-you-are-at-idug-in-anaheim/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 14:07:00 +0000 Leon Katsnelson http://freedb2.com/?p=1912 There is a discussion thread on LinkedIN IDUG NA group with a number of people chiming in about how many IDUG (International DB2 User Group) events they’ve participated in. Phil Granger thinks he has done 42. I have had my share of IDUG events but I don’t think I am going to beat Phil’s record. I did present at many IDUG events (well over 20 I think) and each one was a rewarding experience for me as both presenter but even more so as an attendee. I am always fascinated by the depth of the technical content that is exchanged [...]

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]]> http://freedb2.com/2011/05/01/a-peek-at-the-db2-future-if-you-are-at-idug-in-anaheim/feed/ 0 The demise of the open source fanatic http://freedb2.com/2008/08/03/the-demise-of-the-open-source-fanatic/ http://freedb2.com/2008/08/03/the-demise-of-the-open-source-fanatic/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:02:29 +0000 Leon Katsnelson http://freedb2.com/?p=61 I spent the last week in Portland at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention also known as OSCON. We were part of the IBM exhibit talking to people about DB2 Express-C. OSCON is an interesting conference. Basically it is a big lovefest for the open source guys. Imagine about 2500 geeks all assembled in a single place for a week to talk about free software. The best part for me is that OSCON is not fixated on Linux. There were plenty of tutorials and talks on PHP, Python, Django, Ruby on Rails and of course databases. As one would expect there [...]

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