I found an interesting article last night from Network Computing. The article, Business Intelligence Suites Gold Standard BI compares 6 Business Intelligence products - Actuate, Applix, Cognos, Information Builders, Microsoft and MicroStrategy. Using Network Computing's corporate data stored in Oracle9i, the products were evaluated based on their ability to leverage corporate infrastructure, including using Active Directory 2000 as an authentication source and Exchange 2000 for e-mail distribution of reports.

For those involved with Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, it is an article worth reading.

There are many things to be thankful for...
A beautiful day

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Colors of Fall

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Most especially .....

Family and Friends ...

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Happy Thanksgiving! Have a great one.

We are working on a Content Management System for a customer and we are applying Digital Watermark to protect the customer's photos from unlicensed use. We are using Digimarc MyPictureMarc™.

It has been a frustrating experience for me since the embedded digital mark keeps on disappearing. I embed the digital mark, save and close. When I reopen the file, the digital mark is gone. It does not happen on all the photos but only some of it. It seems like the watermark does not survive at all.

The photos (from screen shots) below should illustrate my point:

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Digimarc Embedded and Verified

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Photo saved. Notice the © symbol in the filename - ©HappyValley1.jpg when it was opened by JASC PaintshopPro

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Closed the file and re-opened.... Digimarc Gone!

We are using an older version of JASC PainshopPro Version 7.04 so the current downloadable Digimarc Plugin does not work. (Separate issue opened with Digimarc). So, we are using the Digimarc interface that comes with our version, seen below:

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Another weird thing: Using Digimarc MyPictureMarc Reader, the file: 37oakrd11170303.jpg does not have the digimarc sign.

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Opening it up in JASC,:

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the © symbol is not there. But if one reads the digimarc, it is there:

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These are my Digimarc woes ...

I wrote Digimarc support to see why this is happening. Keep posted....

Congratulations to the Ojos team! Joseph and I were at the TechCrunch Meetup #4 - Riya Launch Party. The event was a success. Thanks to Mike for being a great host and for Munjal, Tara and Ojos team for the food and drinks.

Do you know who these folks are? I bet Riya can tell you.

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Mike's Opening Remarks

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Munjal's Welcome

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Ojos Team

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Riya and Deven (poor kids .... terrorized by all the camera flashes ... it is hard to be a celebrity)

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Tara's Demo

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There has been a lot of concerns regarding the readiness of Open Source databases for the enterprise. Does this article: Sun Jumps On Open-Source Database Bandwagon To Boost Solaris prove that the enterprise has finally embraced Open Source databases?