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Tim Negris
Tim Negris has been a product executive at Sybase, Oracle and IBM, a strategy consultant to Dell, HP and Sarnoff Labs, a database and language standards wonk on ANSI, XOpen, and TPPC committees, and is a software innovator in collaborative web technology.

Microsoft SSDS - Dumb Name, Brilliant Idea!
By Tim Negris
To understand the potential impact of Microsoft's cloud strategy and SSDS service initiative on Oracle, IBM/DB2, Sun/MySQL, Ingres, Postgres and other relational or post-relational database management systems, it's important to note that SSDS has nothing to do w...
Mar. 17, 2008 07:00 AM  Reads: 2,736
Why Adobe AIR Is Not Google Gears, Prism, JavaFX or Silverlight
By Tim Negris
Adobe's release last week of its AIR 1.0 (Adobe Integrated Runtime) cross-platform platform got plenty of ink. Much of it missed the point. And that's understandable, given that we are tumbling into the next generation of everything all at once right now - SaaS an...
Mar. 10, 2008 10:30 AM  Reads: 12,540  Replies: 1

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