The pace of change today means that companies and technologies will rise and fall faster than ever, and “innovate or die,” has never been more accurate.

As the Oracle OpenWorld conference winds down, not much was said about next-generation database technology – in particular Enterprise NoSQL databases. It’s the next-generation database technology that MarkLogic has made so enterprise-hardened that well over 50 percent of our business is a result of finishing projects that customers started

Last week’s $100 million settlement between the state of Oregon and Oracle over a botched state health insurance website is both dismaying and illuminating.

It is dismaying because taxpayers are left holding the bag, once again, in terms of a huge loss while Oracle, initially hired to produce the site, ends up more entrenched in the state’s IT future.

The settlement is illuminating because it shows, once again, how enticing it is for entities, in this case Oregon, to stick with

Last week, an estimated 70,000 people arrived in San Francisco for Oracle OpenWorld. In the course of five days there were 2000+ sessions, 3000+ speakers, and about 800 exhibitors and demos. There were a lot of talks focused on the cloud, flash storage, engineered systems, analytics, and of course big data. MarkLogic had a popular booth, and our VP of Engineering, David Gorbet, was also interviewed on theCube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeDrVKgl55c.

So, how did we stand out in the