> > Ok this is anecdotal and on a somewhat different tack but a couple of months > ago I took the Marklogic Developer course. One of the few things I retained > from the course was the realisation that the instructor had no idea what was > in the XQuery specifiation (1.0 or 3.0) and in what way they differed from > the Marklogic variant.
Ihe, what I find not only pathetic, but totally reprehensible, in MarkLogic’s way of conducting business is: (1) they don’t tell their customers that all the technology they use is based on an industrial standard in which about 15 (years) times 20-30 (people = 3000-4500 man/year were invested by various companies : XQuery. The advantages (flexibility, integration, blah, blah) that MarkLogic sells to its customers come mostly from the design of XQuery, not from anywhere else. Yet, most customers never heard of XQuery. I talked to many of them. Users of XQuery for XXX years, yet they never heard of XQuery from MarkLogic…. That’s very reprehensible business behavior: it’s called lack of scientific and intellectual irresponsibility. And it’s done ON PURPOSE. ( Even worse, I think even their own salesforce has no clue about XQuery…..) (2) just look at the www.marklogic.com <http://www.marklogic.com/> The first who spots the word “XQuery” somewhere, gets a special cookie from me :-) I wasn’t able to find it…. How would the users be able to figure that MarkLogic didn’t invent ANY that !? You take them wining, dining and golfing, and … here you go. (3) look at MarkLogic’s CEO, Gary Bloom, explaining to it’s customers about the “beauty” of MarkLogic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgBDSzak6jQ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgBDSzak6jQ> Gary, no kidding man, you realized (finally!) that XQuery is used for data heterogeneous, schema-less data processing, for data integration and such…..!!!!! WOW. I am impressed. You finally got what the main design goal of XQuery WAS ….. It’s only 20 years TOO late :-) Sorry, Gary, the fact that you spent your life in Oracle doesn’t excuse your ignorance in managing heterogeneous data. ==================== Gary Bloom, when you say “WE have a solution” …. you mean ****** “XQuery community has a solution”********** Bring up some intellectual honesty, Gary, and stop bullshitting your customers. Dana
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