Jim Panttaja

I have been looking at database products, and found a couple of links (and a couple found me):

• EnterpriseDB offers an Oracle compatible product at a fraction of the Oracle cost. A colleague of ours, Bob Zurek is now their CTO.
• Not unrelated, EnterpriseDB is providing a Postgres Resource Center. Bob wrote about this in his blog.
• Encirq provides a very small footprint database for embedded environments. A former boss of mine at both Tandem and IBM, Steve Weick, is the VP and CTO. Steve has a great history with a variety of database products, including DB2, NonStop SQL, Informix and Cloudscape.

All are things I need to spend more time looking at.

Google has just released the ability to embed maps in a blog.

Here is an example of the trip we took in July and August.

The maps are easy to embed. Once you have created a map you like, click on ‘link to this page’. One of the options is a HTML to be copied in to your page. There are some Google Maps features that this won’t work with - in which case the text when you click on ‘link to this page’ is greyed out.