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1 year ago
in Up the Street / Down the Road by Derek Sean Quinlan at Artguise on Big Story
Dave, I love your new blog theme, looks great.
1 year ago
in Saving Money On Startups on A VC
At least half of this comment is pretty self-serving, since I own Pythian, but one other suggestion is to outsource database and systems infrastructure management to a company such as mine. We run MySQL infrastructure for about two dozen companies either in the startup phase or recently graduated out of it. Since we do this on a fractional FTE basis, if you need 24x7 coverage from an elite DBA and Sysadmin team - but only for 30 hours per month all told - this is the way to do it.
Here's the other half worth considering: virtual PBX services from a company such as GotVMail, which is actually a great client of ours that is out of the startup phase now to be sure.
Cheers
Paul
Here's the other half worth considering: virtual PBX services from a company such as GotVMail, which is actually a great client of ours that is out of the startup phase now to be sure.
Cheers
Paul
1 year ago
in More OpenWorld Blogger Updates on Oracle AppsLab
Bloggers might want to check out Pythian blogger Christo Kutrovsky - he'll be premiering a new presentation on how 11g perfects features that were imperfectly present in prior releases of Oracle. It's on Thursday at 2:30 in 304 Moscone South.
Paul
Paul
2 years ago
in Top Of The (Oracle) Blogs - Digging in a Habari sandpit on Comments for 'Blog in isolation'
I should explain that last comment because I'm still laughing about it but no-one else will get it unless I flesh it out a bit: In high school I would have won no popularity contests (actually I did win one, but I'll save that story for another time). So anyway, like all teenage boys will, I had a crush on a particularly attractive and charismatic, statuesque younger sister of a close friend.
Obviously, I never had the courage to do anything about this crush, but it did consume every waking thought for months on end.
Once in university, living a thousand clicks away from each other, I happened to be chatting on bitnet (think instant messaging in 1991: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitnet_Relay) with my old friend who was at the University of Waterloo, and who should take the keyboard to tell me he was out and about but his little sister. And we chatted. And then she came clean and told me she had a crush on me "back in high school". AAAaarrgh!
And thus did I join the teeming ranks of men who can say "oh for what might have been!"
Now - I wasn't thinking of this story at all when I posted that being left out was just like high school... But when the denouement ensued, this memory came rushing forth and I laughed and laughed - then posted that obscure message. Get it now? :-)
Paul
Obviously, I never had the courage to do anything about this crush, but it did consume every waking thought for months on end.
Once in university, living a thousand clicks away from each other, I happened to be chatting on bitnet (think instant messaging in 1991: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitnet_Relay) with my old friend who was at the University of Waterloo, and who should take the keyboard to tell me he was out and about but his little sister. And we chatted. And then she came clean and told me she had a crush on me "back in high school". AAAaarrgh!
And thus did I join the teeming ranks of men who can say "oh for what might have been!"
Now - I wasn't thinking of this story at all when I posted that being left out was just like high school... But when the denouement ensued, this memory came rushing forth and I laughed and laughed - then posted that obscure message. Get it now? :-)
Paul
2 years ago
in Top Of The (Oracle) Blogs - Digging in a Habari sandpit on Comments for 'Blog in isolation'
I came just to see where we ranked... and we didn't even make your list! :-)
Oh well! These ego games always teach you a good lesson - sometimes you're top-10 (hi Doug!) and sometimes, well, you don't rank at all. Like high school (for me it was at least.)
Paul
Oh well! These ego games always teach you a good lesson - sometimes you're top-10 (hi Doug!) and sometimes, well, you don't rank at all. Like high school (for me it was at least.)
Paul
3 years ago
in a short history of Oracle blogging - Digging in a Habari sandpit on Comments for 'Blog in isolation'
I think I might have you all beat. I hereby lay claim to having been ... the first Oracle blogger! Although the exact start date has been lost to history, it was definitely all in place by November ........ 1998.
Here's my evidence: http://www.pythian.com/blogs/164/oracle-linux-a...
It's an interesting article about Oracle and Linux and this weeks' events to boot.
Cheers
Paul
Here's my evidence: http://www.pythian.com/blogs/164/oracle-linux-a...
It's an interesting article about Oracle and Linux and this weeks' events to boot.
Cheers
Paul
