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"Looking for DBA's and developers to replace our way-to-expensive Oracle database."
+1 for Oracle 
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Oracle has big market share in "big data" databases likes enterprises oder security agencies.
Excel is more for home or small business users.
I used to think that MS SQL Server is doing fine. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Yeah, I think SQL Server is doing fine. I doubt I'd ever use it again intentionally though (MariaDB and PostgreSQL are both good enough, IMO). I'd only use an Oracle product under duress (not counting MySQL, but that only because I'm lazy and that's the default for Wordpress).
It may have changed since I last looked, but just count the Excel spreadsheets in big companies that are acting like databases - contact lists, project tracking, etc. etc. It used to be the free-form database of choice.
TTFN - Kent
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Hmmm...
The method is flawed IMO. For example, DB-Engine calculates an index by (I quote) "searching for <system name=""> together with the term database, e.g. "Oracle" and "database"."
Lets try it out:
Google "SQL server database" => 35.4 million results
Google "Oracle database" => 19.7 million results
They also claim to look at google trends... So that's what I found in Google trends for December 2015:
SQL Server database index = 42
Oracle Database index = 27
They also say they use Stackoverflow...
SQL server Tag: 151708
Oracle Tag: 64616
Get the idea? It looks like Oracle is not as widely mentioned as they worked it out. (and that matches my experience of the market!)
And my last point is that they are sponsored by Solid-It, a development/consultancy company who are in Java/NoSQL business stuff... enough said! conflict of interests springs to mind!
This kind of article should be published in the Daily Mail (If you are from the UK you know what I mean...)
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 Good detective work
Now, get back to real work! 
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft's coming end of support for Windows Embedded is forcing the industry to look elsewhere Is it still a "bastion" if you stop work on it?
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Quote: The industry coalesced around Windows Embedded CE version 6, which debuted in 2006 and represents 99 percent of all embedded devices' operating system, says Mark Kirstein, senior director of enterprise software at Zebra, the company that makes most of those specialty devices.
I find that incredibly hard impossible to believe. In a small number of markets that may be true, but "99% of all embedded devices" seems a ridiculous claim.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Windows Embedded is running on a lot of older devices, like ATM machines, in the industry (roboters) or cash register in markets.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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The State Administration for Industry and Commerce released a statement Tuesday that it would open a new investigation into the Redmond-based company related to electronic data the Chinese government had collected earlier. Sorry, I have to take the rest of the day off. That headline broke my brain.
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When asked if he’s bitter for receiving no compensation for creating Solitaire for Windows, Wes Cherry once quipped, “Yeah, especially since you are all probably paid to play it!” "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" (OK, to one)
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Wes Cherry actually responded in one of the forums. He wrote the game for Windows 2.1 in his free time when interning at Microsoft in 1988. Graphics was done by direct pixel math against the EGA buffer. He wrote it in C as there wasn't a good C++ compiler available yet for Windows.
A PM saw the game and decided to officially make it part of Windows 3.0. He knew he would not be paid for it and he was fine with it, then as well as now.
Wes is now the owner of a hard cider company on Vashon Island (near Seattle). He says he rarely codes these days, but when he does it's C/C++ for embedded controllers for cider making hardware.
Thought you'd be interested in this trivia, Kent 
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I am - thank you!
Now... I need to plan a trip over to Vashon Island 
TTFN - Kent
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Slide continues as the once-dominant browser slips to 48.6%, with Google's Chrome poised to take the No. 1 spot in October Everyone has moved to Edge?
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Not us! We're a new age DevOps shop and find that Internet Explorer works best with our product. Internet Explorer is the only web browser that displays our software and WebBot components correctly and allows us to unite an agile processs of development and instantaneous software deployments with FrontPage and FrontPage Server Extensions.
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You had me up to the end there. Well done. 
TTFN - Kent
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Your website is heavily connected to Microsoft standards and technologies. Consider updating to HTML5 or javascript.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I was just making a sarcastic and nostalgic joke about Internet Explorer, because Kent Sharkey posts some good articles and sometimes adds some funny comments. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Everyone has moved to Edge?
The problem with Edge is that is cuts. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Four new elements complete the seventh row of the periodic table Can I borrow a cup of ununseptium?
Isn't that a double negative? So it's like septium?
modified 4-Jan-16 22:36pm.
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It's spreads like septium, but it tastes like ununseptium!
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The various privacy concerns surrounding Windows 10 have received a lot of coverage in the media, but it seems that there are ever more secrets coming to light. As long as they're not timing my Freecell games, I'm fine.
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MS is in Big Brother mode.
Would be fun to flood with fake data.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Because they're going to a Window that comes with a warranty so they don't have people dragging on, like they did with XP. Once the warranty period has expired you're on your own.
I started a small engine repair shop with my father-in-law and his warranty was 3 sec. or 3 ft. whichever comes first.
New version: WinHeist Version They all laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same. Kurt Cobain
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I’ve been reading some of the commentary on my post about 64-bit Visual Studio which is really about 64-bit vs. 32-bit generally using Visual Studio as an example and I have to say that for the most part, I’m pretty disappointed with the arguments being put forth in favor of 64-bits. YAGNI
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