<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=" header" style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 12px 15px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><h3 class="headline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;">Recent linkedin discussion.</h3><h3 class="headline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><br class=""></h3><h3 class="headline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;">Not sure why Andrei thought that this concerns me :-)))</h3><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It doesn’t. I really don’t care.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">No matter how many bizzilions/gazzilions of $$$ MarkLogic is evaluated to, they still have ZERO innovation,</div><div class=""> their technology is mediocre, and they have no long term vision.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do I hear someone saying: "here comes Oracle again” !?:-)</div><div class="">(without Larry Ellison though..)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards</div><div class="">Dana</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><h3 class="headline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><br class=""></h3><h3 class="headline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; 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font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); overflow: hidden;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline; word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=910384&authType=name&authToken=IP5T&trk=hp-feed-member-name" class=" mentioned name miniprofile" data-trk="member-mention-name" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 140, 201); font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Daniela Florescu</a> time of database companies <a href="https://lnkd.in/b8j4Tvv" data-trk="link" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(102, 105, 106); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><cite dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; display: inline; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;" class="">blogs.wsj.com</cite><span class="snippet" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); height: 30px; max-height: none;">MarkLogic Corp. has joined the ranks of the world’s most valuable private companies, raising $102 million …</span></div></a></div></div></div></div></div><ul class="actions" data-block="actions" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 15px; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; font-variant: inherit; color: rgb(102, 105, 106);">16h</span></div><h4 class="sub-headline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(67, 70, 73); white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; display: inline;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=910384&authType=name&authToken=IP5T&trk=hp-feed-commenter-name" class="miniprofile name" data-trk="member-commenter-name" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 140, 201); font-variant: inherit; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; max-width: 100%; display: inline-block;">Daniela Florescu</a></h4></div><div class="text-entity" data-block="text-entity" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); overflow: hidden; display: inline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">And why is this for me, Andrei !?😜</div></div><button class="delete-comment comment-action" data-href="" data-url="/hp/modules/action-endpoints/deleteComment/urn:li:activity:6003779926275145728/6003905937230811136?csrfToken=ajax%3A0244315853723072983" data-params="{}" data-delete-tooltip-id="delete-tooltip-3" aria-describedby="delete-tooltip-3" data-block="delete-comment" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; background-image: none; padding: 0px 1px 0px 0px; border: 0px; overflow: hidden; top: 10px; 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vertical-align: bottom; font-variant: inherit; color: rgb(102, 105, 106);">now</span></div><h4 class="sub-headline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(67, 70, 73); white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; display: inline;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=910384&authType=&authToken=&trk=" class="miniprofile name" data-trk="-name" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 140, 201); font-variant: inherit; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; max-width: 100%; display: inline-block;">Daniela Florescu</a></h4></div><div class="expanded text-entity" data-block="text-entity" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); overflow: hidden; display: inline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">MarkLogic has a mediocre implementation of a W3C standard which is NOT designed by them but by the W3C: XQuery. There is no single technical innovation that I can see from MarkLogic. They've been good at hiring expensive sales people who play good golf and fool lots of customers that the advantages they get are coming from MarkLogic itself ,... vs the underlying technology (XQuery) -- which is the real truth.</div></div></div></li><li class=" comment-entity" data-block="comment-entity" style="margin: 5px 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; position: relative; min-height: 30px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 1;"><div class="content" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=910384&authType=&authToken=&trk=" class="image member xsmall-actor-image" data-trk="image" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(150, 153, 156); font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; position: absolute; left: 0px; width: 30px; height: 30px;"><img alt="Daniela Florescu" width="30" height="30" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" apple-inline="yes" id="8B0087F2-C49A-4340-BB75-C6D94106FABD" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:482B37B1-38A2-4EC5-9924-93E2DC89A30B@att.net" class=""></a><div class=" header" style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline;"><div class="meta" data-block="meta" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; float: right; height: 14px;"><span class="timestamp" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; font-variant: inherit; color: rgb(102, 105, 106);">now</span></div><h4 class="sub-headline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(67, 70, 73); white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; display: inline;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=910384&authType=&authToken=&trk=" class="miniprofile name" data-trk="-name" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 140, 201); font-variant: inherit; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; max-width: 100%; display: inline-block;">Daniela Florescu</a></h4></div><div class="expanded text-entity" data-block="text-entity" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); overflow: hidden; display: inline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline; word-wrap: break-word;" class=""> The sad problem is: customers are technically uneducated and willing to listen to all kinds of sales/snake oil stories. Or maybe there are some other reasons why customers are willing to pay a fortune for something they can get for free.... but then, other then stupidity, the reason escapes me. But who am I to judge if someone REALLY wants to waste 300K per CPU for something they can get fore free... !? If there are government customers, and this is MY taxes money, well.... I MIGHT have a problem with that, naturally.</div></div></div></li></ol></div><form class="comment-box" data-block="comment-box" data-type="member-comment-share" data-base-url="/lite/updates?csrfToken=ajax%3A0244315853723072983" data-post-params="{"activityUrn":"urn:li:activity:6003905937524408320","attributedObjectUrn":"urn:li:activity:6003779926275145728","comment":true,"createViralActivity":true,"objectUrn":"urn:li:activity:6003779926275145728"}" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(241, 243, 245); position: relative;"><pre class="mirror" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: monospace, serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: absolute; left: -9999px; visibility: hidden; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); width: 517px;"></pre><div class="mentions-container" data-li-mentionsid="0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"></div></form><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 11, 2015, at 5:56 PM, daniela florescu <<a href="mailto:dflorescu@me.com" class="">dflorescu@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">After a little bit of Googling, it seems that the answer to my question is much sillier then I originally thought.<br class=""><br class="">MarkLogic queries/processes JSON (potentially TB or more of JSON data)… through….well... Javascript.<br class=""><br class="">Well, as a “data scientist” (hey, everyone else is one, why not me :-), I am speechless.<br class=""><br class="">I knew that companies with good marketing and expensive sales who play golf can sell all kinds of BS to their customers.<br class=""><br class="">But still, that’s talking your database customers for total idiots.<br class=""><br class="">===============================<br class=""><br class="">Dear MarkLogic people, dear Gary Bloom (CEO of MarkLogic), did I understand correctly that Javascript is your answer !!!????<br class=""><br class="">===============================<br class=""><br class="">If I didn’t get it wrong, and that’s what you currently do, you obviously NEED to do something else.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">And I can see only three possible choices for you:<br class=""><br class="">1. You use XQuery 3.1. as it is designed by an esteemed and very nice W3C committee.<br class=""> Seems like a bad choice, as the JSON-only people will hate it — see the previous discussion, but not as bad as Javascript.<br class=""><br class="">2. You “make up” your own JSON query language. <br class="">Good luck with that. Sounds an even worse choice then the previous one.<br class=""><br class="">3. You use JSONiq. <br class="">That you would be smart and without any problems (JSONiq is an open specification, so by all means, please do), but in this case, <br class="">please be intellectually honest and admit it publicly.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Best regards, (and oh, apologizes in advance to the MarkLogic's lawyers who must pull their hairs out <br class="">trying to figure out how to answer my emails … sorry !)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Dana<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">P.S. MarkLogic, when you take yourself so seriously as to “We are the leaders in the NoSQL world..”, blah, blah, please remember the saying<br class="">“with great authority come great responsibility”. At least the responsibility to be intelligent in technical choices.</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>