I turned 44 today. Life is sad.

Just been in San Francisco for a few days. On business, I should add. A database company paid for the ticket and because they’re nice they book me in business class. If they hadn’t done that I’d probably be dead or in jail for freaking out in the airplane.
Here’s what happened. Leaving San Jose at [...]

Last week, I did a presentation at the Dutch Business Objects user conference in Amsterdam. I was surprised by the large number of attendees (over 400) for a country-specific gathering, but I was more surprised by the liberal attitude of this corporate event. Now, the “Oranje” always had a reputation for taking themselves not so [...]

Today is my first day with Gartner. The deal of the META Group acquisition has finally closed and I will join the Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing team as VP Research. Most of the other analysts in Gartner I do know already, but it’s particularly nice that my colleagues David Newman, Kurt Schlegel, and Mark [...]