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Image by dfarber via Flickr At the SAP academic research conference yesterday Hasso Plattner spent a lot of time talking about database design and why it’s still important. More significantly, he drilled into why re-architecting applications to take advantage of a fundamentally differently database than what we are used to with relational databases is critical [...]
This is Part 2 in my Fortune Brainstorm Tech series. Part 1 covered a conversation with Vishal Sikka. Vinnie Mirchandani, Oliver Marks, Dennis Howlett and I sat down with John Schwarz, who recently came to SAP via the Business Objects acquisition and has quickly emerged as the man with the plan. If you have been [...]
The odds of sitting down with a senior executive of a major technology company and being surprised and enlightened are one in a million because typically they sit down with a prepared agenda and, with the benefit of years and years of media training, religiously stay on message turning every question back to the thing [...]