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Over the years, I have seen many organizations use MS-Excel as a database. I have also been tempted and joined the ‘Cult of Excel’ from time to time.

This morning, I stumbled across this interesting article, regarding the use of MS-Excel within organizations.
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I have been exchanging a couple of emails with Rocket Software regarding the status of the U2 Professional Certifications. Their web site is a bit broken on the certification page; all the links refer to IBM and then only one of the links actually works.
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Well, after 2 years to the day, I have decided to reactivate my IT blog.

A lot has happened over the last 2 years; and also not that much.

I am currently doing some university work; in the area of software engineering. Interesting stuff at this level.

Within the U2 world, things have also changed; and not so much.

As everyone knows, IBM sold the U2 product family to Rocket Software. That was a recent thing; in Sept/Oct of last year. But has anything changed? More about that later.

I have been working with Python and the ability to use Python with UniVerse interests me.

So, that will be the current theme – Python and multivalued data based systems…

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I have returned to New Zealand after being away for 18 months. So, I have been on the lookout for information regarding the current status of IT within NZ, in-particular multi-value products.

The New Zealand MIS magazine had it’s top 100 ICT user list in the May 2008 issue. It lists the largest IT users, based mainly on the number of screens within the organisation.
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Over the last week multi-value or post-relational databases were mentioned a couple of times in the media (media is a rather loose term these days).
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The IBM Info awards are around again. There is a link on the U2 page or go here.

I had a quick look at last years winners, and I did not recognize any U2 partners. So, go to it and vote for your favorite vendor, VAR/VAD or software house.

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Remember all the excitement about the year 2000? Yes, it did affect multi-value environments; well it did where I was…

It is back, but in a new form and this time it has absolutely nothing to do with computer systems!

Continue reading ‘y2k is now m4c’ »

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Cedarville University maintains a rather useful utility for exporting data from U2.

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Since the new install of WordPress 2.51, search now works again. It is at the top of the right hand column.

I hope that it helps.

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Well, I have had fun over the last couple of days; upgrading this web site blog to the new version of WordPress.

It all started with the need to upgrade the underlying operating system on the virtual host that I have. It was a very old version of Fedora Core and I now had the opportunity to upgrade to CentOS 5.1, which I prefer.

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