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This document links to wikis, groups, blogs, and websites belonging to the community of VectorStar users, developers, and partners.

Community

Wikis

The Vectornova wiki will be available shortly. The JSoftware wiki is endlessly interesting and extremely useful.

Groups

We have a brand new group at Google Groups.

Blogs

A link to our CTO's blog will be available here, shortly.

Curt Monash's DBMS2 blog is arguably the best source for information regarding the analytical database industry today. Must see.

David Raab's Customer Experience Matrix blog is also a good source of information on columnar/analytic databases, even though his actual focus is marketing technology and analysis (not surprising, as CRM was one of the first actual applications of columnar databases, Alterian comes to mind). Particulary relevant is the following selection of posts on the topic of database technology. Recommended. Highly recommended.

Amyn Rajan's blog is a good source of info on everything related to analytic databases, data warehousing and BI. Amin is the CEO of Simba Technologies. Recommended.

Full Table Scan, a blog written by Tom, a self-described "database junkie" provides a "from the trenches" look at the analytic database industry.

Joe Foley is a competitor's CTO and we don't think he's got it quite right on several key points regarding analytic database technology, but nevertheless the points he touches in his blog are the ones to care about in this industry.

Written mostly by people related to a competitor, including Michael Stonebraker, The Database Column is not the place to look for a diversity of opinions on analytic database technology. But it is a good source of info on that particular point of view.

Rick Abbott's blog contains some informative posts on the topic of analytic databases, although it seems to have been far more active in 2008.

Dave Kellog's blog is a bit light on the topic of analytic databases but id does provide lots of interesting info on the business side of database software companies.

Technology Partners

Technology Partners include Consulting firms, ISVs, and OEMs

DIPROS produces a family of front-end database tools compatible with VectorStar. Some of them are explicitly designed to take advantage of the unique capabilities offered by VectorStar. A brief flash demo of one of them is available as a downloadable zip file here. Don't miss it.

CIS Corporate provides consulting services for VectorStar users in Latin America and Spain. They have offices in Mexico City, São Paulo, Bogotá, and Madrid.

JSoftware Inc., Toronto, provides professional consulting services based on the J programming language (VectorStar's user defined functions (UDFs), stored procedures (SPs), and extension modules (EXMs) can be defined in J). Services offered include training and development, and can be customized to your requirements. They also provide references to independent consultants.

ExtJS is a family of very high quality JavaScript libraries compatible with VectorStar. Ext JS 2.0 is the "GUI part", a cross -browser JavaScript library for building rich internet applications. Ext JS is compatible with the ubiquituous JQuery, but you may choose to use the excellent Ext Core 3.0 instead, which provides all the functionality needed to build dynamic web pages. Really worth checking them out!

Oleg's J Page is a rich source of useful J libraries compatible with VectorStar. Among the most popular/useful ones are:

· bindings to SQLite

· Zip file utilities

· XML parser based on the eXpat library

· a Graphviz interface

· PERL's Regexes

Tlallian builds VectorStar-based end-user applications for government security agencies and forces, such as:

· 066-089-075 Call Center

· Remote Wireless DWH Querying for Police Cars

· State Security Datawarehouse

· Face Recognition for Police Applications

· Fingerprint Recognition

· Driver License Identification

· Police Squad Mapping, Monitoring and Control

Commercial Partners

Commercial Partners include Resellers, Distributors, and OEMs

Europe

· Austria and Central Europe: we are about to sign a Master Distributor agreement with our partners in Vienna

Latin America

· CIS Corporate, is a Master Distributor based in Mexico City and São Paulo

· Indigital, is a Local Reseller based in Monterrey, NL, MX

· DIPROS, is an OEM, based in Tampico, TAMPS, MX

· We're currently looking for commercial partners in Chile and Argentina

North America

VectorStar is not yet available in North America. We are working towards a 4Q09 or 1Q10 availability date.

Other

We are currently establishing our distribution and support channels in Asia, South Africa, Australia, Japan, Israel, and Russia. Please contact us for directions on how to purchase our products in your area.

Sites

The R Statistical Platform Project site.

The Erlang Open Telecommunications Platform site.

This site in Italy ("olap.it") is an extensive source of relevant links to olap, bi, and data warehousing links. It is coverage of analytic databases is relatively weak.

Enterprise Systems has some good articles on columnar/analytical databases.