Jesse Davis
As Senior Director of Research & Development, Jesse is responsible for the daily operations, product development initiatives and forward looking research for Progress DataDirect. Jesse has spent nearly 20 years creating enterprise data products and has served as an expert on several industry standards including JDBC, J2EE, DRDA and OData. Jesse holds a bachelor of science degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State university.
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Orbitz Harnessing Hadoop: Mac vs PC
Did you know that Mac users are 80% more likely to be vegetarian than PC Users? Or that PC users are more likely to prefer to read the USA Today? At our design previews for our upcoming Hadoop driver we explored these and other interesting factoids on...
7 Tech Trends to watch in 2011
As we approach the dawning of a new year I wanted to step back and reflect on what happened this past year in the industry and think through where the technology industry is headed in the coming year. The past year held many great technological advancements made by us humans, and while we now have...
Customer story – Helping customers that may be overthinking a simple problem
Last week I told you about our unique brand of water cooler chatter here at Progress Software – the innovation of our customer. That’s one of the cool things about working for a software company that enables businesses to do their jobs better – your solutions are limited only by the ingenuity of your...
Customer Story: How high availability can prevent downtime
Around the office water cooler, while some people talk about the latest celebrity gossip, we talk about the “application failover guy.” Take that tidbit as you will…but here’s the story.
When we made the decision to build in high availability directly into the client (rather than rely solely on the...
Oracle / IBM Java Pact a Good Thing
In a blog post yesterday, Steve Lohr of The New York Times said, “software developers uneasily held their collective breath when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems earlier this year.” That’s a good way to frame...
Java: A Questionable Future
On my flight back from Oracle OpenWorld, I’m left with several conflicting impressions of what I heard during Thomas Kurian’s keynote and throughout JavaOne. What’s unsettling about it is that I’m both excited and worried about the future of Java. Let’s start with the positive.
The investment in...
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