Came accross this:
http://www.rittman.net/archives/2005/10/sand_sybase_iq_and_columnbased.html
An interesting discussion about Sybase IQ, which points two things:
1. Most of the customers or people who benchmarked it were extremely impressed and satisfied with Sybase IQ performance.
2. They were amazed how they never came accross this technology when it existed since 90's !
My personal opinion is that Sybase IQ would have taken off in much brighter flying colors but for a lackadaisical marketing by Sybase.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Truly cosmopolitan
Somebody asked me some days back - "Where are you from?" After a significant deliberation over the question I replied - "What do you mean...?"
That I am an Indian, he obviously knows, it was difficult to zoom in further. My father is from Agra, U.P. My mother's father is from Agra too. But my mother was brought up in Cochin, Kerala. I was born and brought up in Sriganganagar, Rajasthan. My parents currently stay in Jaipur, Rajasthan. I am married to a Bombayite, and my in-laws are Maharastrians staying in Mumbai. So, probably the closest answer is Rajasthan... but then I cannot really call myself a "Rajasthani". Most of my older relatives (my grandparents etc.) stay in Agra and have a U.P accent. So probably U.P is closer. But then I don't have any specific accent. And, I do not associate culturally either to U.P., Rajasthan, or Maharashtra. I know only English and Hindi and none of local dialects.
Perhaps, like many of today's generation and cities, I am cosmopolitan too :)
That I am an Indian, he obviously knows, it was difficult to zoom in further. My father is from Agra, U.P. My mother's father is from Agra too. But my mother was brought up in Cochin, Kerala. I was born and brought up in Sriganganagar, Rajasthan. My parents currently stay in Jaipur, Rajasthan. I am married to a Bombayite, and my in-laws are Maharastrians staying in Mumbai. So, probably the closest answer is Rajasthan... but then I cannot really call myself a "Rajasthani". Most of my older relatives (my grandparents etc.) stay in Agra and have a U.P accent. So probably U.P is closer. But then I don't have any specific accent. And, I do not associate culturally either to U.P., Rajasthan, or Maharashtra. I know only English and Hindi and none of local dialects.
Perhaps, like many of today's generation and cities, I am cosmopolitan too :)
Reservations?
I wanted to stay away from this debate ... mainly because I thought I have not made up my mind yet. Infact, I was amazed how sure, about their stand, students/politicians seem to be.
Reservations is a complicated issue. Nobody can deny the obvious deprivation of the so-called lower caste, and a need for upbringing them. The important question is what is the right way of doing this.
The best thing will be to have so many good schools and colleges that there is no dog-snatching over the seats. Or atleast, the issue of "seat" is less emotional and critical. But, even if we suppose that this will eventually happen, it has not happened yet. And, we have to find some way that the current generation who was deprived gets an opportunity.
Reservation is one way. Unfortunately, it is the easiest and the most populistic one too. As a result, it has led the politicans to use this tool again and again for their own advantage.
My reservations with the current "reservations" are:
A. Their implementation lacks any kind of vision. Arjun Singh just shot a ball, and others are busy catching it in a defense fielding mode. There doesn't seem to be any evidence of this decision being based on analysis of effect of reservations so far. Infact, the politicians seem to hide from any such analysis.
B. The reservations seem to for ever. There is no planning of phasing them out. For example, there should be some rule like children of beneficiaries should not be allowed to avail reservations... or something along these lines. Politicians seem to be entirely silent on such important questions.
C. Reservations in education are still ok, but they don't seem to stop anywhere. They are in jobs, in promotions everywhere.
Reservations are right in principle and I respect B. R. Ambedkar for it. But, the way they are being used is dangerous. They have become an excuse for incompetence and lack of motivation for any real work by the politicians. They are never reverted or taken back from people who don't deserve them. I fear if it goes this way it will just result into taking spoon out from one's mouth and putting into other's.
Reservations is a complicated issue. Nobody can deny the obvious deprivation of the so-called lower caste, and a need for upbringing them. The important question is what is the right way of doing this.
The best thing will be to have so many good schools and colleges that there is no dog-snatching over the seats. Or atleast, the issue of "seat" is less emotional and critical. But, even if we suppose that this will eventually happen, it has not happened yet. And, we have to find some way that the current generation who was deprived gets an opportunity.
Reservation is one way. Unfortunately, it is the easiest and the most populistic one too. As a result, it has led the politicans to use this tool again and again for their own advantage.
My reservations with the current "reservations" are:
A. Their implementation lacks any kind of vision. Arjun Singh just shot a ball, and others are busy catching it in a defense fielding mode. There doesn't seem to be any evidence of this decision being based on analysis of effect of reservations so far. Infact, the politicians seem to hide from any such analysis.
B. The reservations seem to for ever. There is no planning of phasing them out. For example, there should be some rule like children of beneficiaries should not be allowed to avail reservations... or something along these lines. Politicians seem to be entirely silent on such important questions.
C. Reservations in education are still ok, but they don't seem to stop anywhere. They are in jobs, in promotions everywhere.
Reservations are right in principle and I respect B. R. Ambedkar for it. But, the way they are being used is dangerous. They have become an excuse for incompetence and lack of motivation for any real work by the politicians. They are never reverted or taken back from people who don't deserve them. I fear if it goes this way it will just result into taking spoon out from one's mouth and putting into other's.
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