Comments on: Google in Mauritius: Day 1 on Twitter http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2009/09/03/google-in-mauritius-day-1-on-twitter/ A blog on Technology Convergence Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:57:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: avinash http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2009/09/03/google-in-mauritius-day-1-on-twitter/#comment-202573 avinash Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:23:34 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=1395#comment-202573 Can anything be compared to Oracle?!? :-) More seriously and as far as I know, PostgreSQL has an excellent feature set and compares favourably to Oracle on that account. As far as performance and scalability are concerned, it seems to me that <a href="http://www.enterprisedb.com/" rel="nofollow">EnterpriseDB</a> is what you should have a look at. Can anything be compared to Oracle?!? :-)

More seriously and as far as I know, PostgreSQL has an excellent feature set and compares favourably to Oracle on that account. As far as performance and scalability are concerned, it seems to me that EnterpriseDB is what you should have a look at.

]]> By: Roshan http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2009/09/03/google-in-mauritius-day-1-on-twitter/#comment-202550 Roshan Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:27:20 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=1395#comment-202550 Lol... I got your joke. I was just playing devil's advocate. I started playing with Debian and Free BSD when they first came out to help me become better at Unix as we were using AIX on RS6000 servers at work... can't practice on live servers. Then Red Hat and Suse started coming out with decent distros which were fun to play with. As I then moved into the networks field, I didn't really work with Linux. I am an ardent supporter of OSS, but I'm sick and tired of companies that keep producing bloated software. This is the reason I favour moving away from current client/server architectures. I'm all for cloud computing if data security risks can be minimised to current levels that enterprises are working with at the moment (servers on LAN). Latency issues on the WAN using current broadband, lease lines or MPLS networks can be further alleviated if the TCP stacks on popular OSes can be re-written to be more efficient (like Sun did with Open Solaris). Alternatively, there are devices out there such as Load Balancers that can help. I see you mention PostgreSQL on your website. What's its scalability like compared to Oracle? Lol… I got your joke. I was just playing devil’s advocate. I started playing with Debian and Free BSD when they first came out to help me become better at Unix as we were using AIX on RS6000 servers at work… can’t practice on live servers.

Then Red Hat and Suse started coming out with decent distros which were fun to play with. As I then moved into the networks field, I didn’t really work with Linux. I am an ardent supporter of OSS, but I’m sick and tired of companies that keep producing bloated software. This is the reason I favour moving away from current client/server architectures. I’m all for cloud computing if data security risks can be minimised to current levels that enterprises are working with at the moment (servers on LAN).

Latency issues on the WAN using current broadband, lease lines or MPLS networks can be further alleviated if the TCP stacks on popular OSes can be re-written to be more efficient (like Sun did with Open Solaris). Alternatively, there are devices out there such as Load Balancers that can help.

I see you mention PostgreSQL on your website. What’s its scalability like compared to Oracle?

]]> By: avinash http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2009/09/03/google-in-mauritius-day-1-on-twitter/#comment-202441 avinash Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:52:59 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=1395#comment-202441 Thanks. I have great hopes for Knowledge Seven too :-) As for that (dubious) joke about Microsoft being from the dark side, this is because of my Linux and OSS background. In fact, during the Twitter session yesterday, there was a formidable exchange of twits between Marc Israel (who works for Microsoft) and myself which, I think, is worthy to be remembered for, at least, a few months ;-) See <a href="http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2009/09/04/google-in-mauritius-day-2-on-twitter/" rel="nofollow">my day 2 transcript</a>. Thanks. I have great hopes for Knowledge Seven too :-)

As for that (dubious) joke about Microsoft being from the dark side, this is because of my Linux and OSS background. In fact, during the Twitter session yesterday, there was a formidable exchange of twits between Marc Israel (who works for Microsoft) and myself which, I think, is worthy to be remembered for, at least, a few months ;-) See my day 2 transcript.

]]> By: Roshan http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2009/09/03/google-in-mauritius-day-1-on-twitter/#comment-202428 Roshan Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:06:34 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=1395#comment-202428 Hmmm... I find it interesting that you think MS is from the dark side (agreed) but not Google. To be fair to all these companies (from the dark side), I can see their point for trying to protect IP that has cost them millions in R&D. After all Apple falls in the same boat. It is a dog eat dog world out there and I'm casting an eye on Oracle to see what they will do once the acquisition of Sun goes through. The country needs ICT leaders within the private sector that will push for changes at the Govt level. I'm very interested to see what happens with Outremer and whether they are allocated a licence to operate in the country. Knowledge Seven looks like a great business initiative and I wish you all the success that you deserve. Hmmm… I find it interesting that you think MS is from the dark side (agreed) but not Google. To be fair to all these companies (from the dark side), I can see their point for trying to protect IP that has cost them millions in R&D. After all Apple falls in the same boat.

It is a dog eat dog world out there and I’m casting an eye on Oracle to see what they will do once the acquisition of Sun goes through.

The country needs ICT leaders within the private sector that will push for changes at the Govt level. I’m very interested to see what happens with Outremer and whether they are allocated a licence to operate in the country.

Knowledge Seven looks like a great business initiative and I wish you all the success that you deserve.

]]> By: avinash http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2009/09/03/google-in-mauritius-day-1-on-twitter/#comment-202386 avinash Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:11:36 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=1395#comment-202386 You're right. It would be nice to have regular presentations (they were not training sessions...) by people from major companies. I agree about Amazon and Salesforce.com (which I use at <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/" rel="nofollow">Knowledge Seven</a>) I would be happy to attend a Microsoft event too because, well, sometimes you need to know what the dark side is doing :-) You’re right. It would be nice to have regular presentations (they were not training sessions…) by people from major companies. I agree about Amazon and Salesforce.com (which I use at Knowledge Seven) I would be happy to attend a Microsoft event too because, well, sometimes you need to know what the dark side is doing :-)

]]> By: Roshan http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2009/09/03/google-in-mauritius-day-1-on-twitter/#comment-202344 Roshan Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:53:00 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=1395#comment-202344 @Avinash - thanks for the run down of what was covered by Google. I hope that local developers found the 2 days worthwhile. @Yasir - Do you know what NCB will be monitoring with the cache servers? Do you know why they are using Google cache servers in the first place and who is paying for that 'privilege' ? I saw this statement on the Govt website - "The hosting of Google Cache Servers will promote Mauritius not only as a destination for IT-Enabled Services, but also for hosting Internet content for the African region, given our excellent ICT infrastructure and connectivity creating spill-overs for other sectors as far as Internet content development is concerned." I will refrain from using sarcasm at this point... Although its great for Mauritians to be exposed to a giant such as Google, I would welcome a move from the BoI to also invite companies such as Microsoft and Oracle to run similar 'training' days. I see no reason to favour Google over any of the other companies out there as all that they want, is to entice more developers to use their cloud platform and develop enterprise apps on it. Amazon EC2 and Salesforce.com, in my opinion, are better options for Mauritians to launch products and services on. I don't have anything against Google... in case anyone thinks I'm having a go at them. @Avinash – thanks for the run down of what was covered by Google. I hope that local developers found the 2 days worthwhile.

@Yasir – Do you know what NCB will be monitoring with the cache servers? Do you know why they are using Google cache servers in the first place and who is paying for that ‘privilege’ ?

I saw this statement on the Govt website –

“The hosting of Google Cache Servers will promote Mauritius not only as a destination for IT-Enabled Services, but also for hosting Internet content for the African region, given our excellent ICT infrastructure and connectivity creating spill-overs for other sectors as far as Internet content development is concerned.”

I will refrain from using sarcasm at this point…

Although its great for Mauritians to be exposed to a giant such as Google, I would welcome a move from the BoI to also invite companies such as Microsoft and Oracle to run similar ‘training’ days. I see no reason to favour Google over any of the other companies out there as all that they want, is to entice more developers to use their cloud platform and develop enterprise apps on it. Amazon EC2 and Salesforce.com, in my opinion, are better options for Mauritians to launch products and services on.

I don’t have anything against Google… in case anyone thinks I’m having a go at them.

]]> By: Yasir http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2009/09/03/google-in-mauritius-day-1-on-twitter/#comment-202335 Yasir Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:59:45 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=1395#comment-202335 hmmm, 1 zafer ki ti p attire bans 35s la.. there was something tide to your neck.. If mrs christina was there sa, paaa koner ki li ti pu fer sa bans hotesss after you lol. Well regarding the twitter issue, that's the limitation!! prefix all your text with chars like "#1" and move to next tweet when all the 140 chars are exhausted.. hmmm, 1 zafer ki ti p attire bans 35s la.. there was something tide to your neck.. If mrs christina was there sa, paaa koner ki li ti pu fer sa bans hotesss after you lol.

Well regarding the twitter issue, that’s the limitation!! prefix all your text with chars like “#1″ and move to next tweet when all the 140 chars are exhausted..

]]> By: Souraksha http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2009/09/03/google-in-mauritius-day-1-on-twitter/#comment-202312 Souraksha Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:48:50 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=1395#comment-202312 Apart from the big 'Google' cake and the free drinks I don't think you missed much :P There were 2 speeches one from the BOI and one from the Minister. Plus Emtel exposing it's new geolocation service. Anyway it was an opportunity for me to have a peek inside the hotel. ;) Apart from the big ‘Google’ cake and the free drinks I don’t think you missed much :P
There were 2 speeches one from the BOI and one from the Minister. Plus Emtel exposing it’s new geolocation service.

Anyway it was an opportunity for me to have a peek inside the hotel. ;)

]]> By: avinash http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2009/09/03/google-in-mauritius-day-1-on-twitter/#comment-202264 avinash Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:22:35 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=1395#comment-202264 As a matter of fact, twittering is tough as you must find a way to condense everything into 140 characters. It forces you to very quickly focus on the essence of things instead of trivialities. I like it. As a matter of fact, twittering is tough as you must find a way to condense everything into 140 characters. It forces you to very quickly focus on the essence of things instead of trivialities. I like it.

]]> By: Yasir http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2009/09/03/google-in-mauritius-day-1-on-twitter/#comment-202245 Yasir Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:47:42 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=1395#comment-202245 G-Mauritius need a pioneer like you who understands various aspects of computer science. Navin Ramgoolam gave NCB the right to monitor google cache-servers which are going to be implemented @ Ebene. Where were those guys on TV?? shouldn't they be there?? Hopefully you were there, giving some pretty good explanations :) G-Mauritius need a pioneer like you who understands various aspects of computer science. Navin Ramgoolam gave NCB the right to monitor google cache-servers which are going to be implemented @ Ebene. Where were those guys on TV?? shouldn’t they be there??

Hopefully you were there, giving some pretty good explanations :)

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