El viernes pasado asistí al workshop de presentación, organizado por Stratebi, de lo que ellos mismos han bautizado como PilaOS, escogiendo las iniciales de las herramientas de software libre que componen esta agrupación.

La PilaOS es un conjunto de diferentes herramientas empresariales Open Source, cada una elegida por aportar una solución muy competitiva en su campo. Entre todas se podrían resolver muchas de las necesidades tecnológicas de una empresa.

Estas son las herramientas que componen la PilaOS..

IBM ha anunciado hoy que ha llegado a un acuerdo para adquirir Netezza y fortalecer así más aún su oferta de Business Intelligence y analítica empresarial. Netezza aprovecha las ventajas que ofrece la virtualización y comercializa con éxito 'Apliances' de Data warehouse preconfiguradas, con lo que permite reducir mucho los tiempos de puesta en marcha de sistemas de Data Warehousing, y asegurar un alto rendimiento y facilidad de administración, incluso en sistemas complejos que manejen gran cantidad de datos...

I just finished an installation of SQL Server 2008 Express and SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express, and I had a few laps for a couple of points of the system that are not too intuitive. With this entry I hope to facilitate the job who is in the same situation later.
To begin with I thought that Management Studio already installed with the BD, and it does not. First you install the SQL Server engine, and then downloaded another package to install SQL Server Management Studio.
Installing SQL Server Express will not comment because I came up no problem worthy of note, and is well explained in many other places. I connect the Microsoft download page where the installation packages of SQL Server 2008 Express.

After installing the BD, download the installation package of SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express, also available at the Microsoft website...

On Tuesday we had the promised post-holiday BI Beers and, as on previous occasions, in a relaxed atmosphere, left very interesting topics of conversation.

On this occasion we could not overcome the previous record, but 10 people attended, which is not bad. Again many of those who attended the last, which means that like it. In the usual were Xavier y Mara, Enric, Pau, David, Juanjo, and Jorge Fernández,who was finally able to re-animate combined event. The new additions were Antonio Valle, of Gobierno TIC and Jordi Rodriguez, which I also repeated in the next. We failed to Fabian Isabel, who had promised to come to ask about BI...