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Pythian is very excited to return to the much-awaited RMOUG 12 held in Denver, Colorado from February 14-16, 2012. Keep your eyes open for Alex Gorbachev, Marc Fielding, Don Seiler and Gwen Shapira in attendance. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers this year featuring a total of seven papers presented by Alex, Marc, Don and Gwen. If you have any feedback on our sessions, please send your comments directly to the speaker or to Vanessa Simmons, Pythian Director of Marketing. Please also follow this link to sign up to receive notice of future speaking engagements, webinars or Pythian news.

Be sure to stop by our booth (#3,6,7,10) to say hello to our friends from the OakTable Network, and enter our draw to win the new Amazon Kindle with software provided by Cary Millsap (MR-Trace, MR-Tools & Method-R Profiler) and a pack of digital e-book downloads courtesy of Apress. Also slated is the RAC Attack workshop, which was first offered at Oracle Open World and UKOUG, and is now in its second year at RMOUG. Pythian is co-sponsoring this event with Apress and it’s a fun and informative way to learn from our experts how and when to properly build a RAC environment.

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For those of you attending UKOUG today, there is a healthy dose of Pythian presentations on tap this afternoon. Actually, you can do it wall to wall 2:30pm to 6:30pm if you like.

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PYTHIAN NEWS

Live from Oracle OpenWorld Pythian is thrilled to share news of our big win: Oracle North America Titan Award for Oracle Exadata solution that was planned, deployed and is currently managed for online marketing corporation LinkShare in New York.

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• Oracle recognition
• LinkShare implementation case study
• Get the project details
• More on Pythian & Oracle Exadata
• Use Pythian’s EasyMigrate Estimator to plan your migration to Oracle Database 11gR2 & Oracle Exadata

PYTHIAN NEWS

Pythian and Scalar Decisions today announced a formal partnership providing Oracle customers an unparalleled one-stop shop solution provider in Canada. Combined, we can help Oracle customers develop, fulfill, implement, and manage their whole Oracle solution stack.

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Pythian’s Oracle ACE, Fahd Mirza appears in this month’s Community: Peer-to-Peer review “In With the New“, as published in the September/October 2011 issue of Oracle Magazine.

Fahd states that “Oracle Exadata Database Machine” has most changed his life – changing the game, and setting very high standards of performance, support, scalability, reliability and unification.

Shout out to Fahd from your peers at Pythian!

I guess there might be just a little truth to Pythian’s growing reputation as an “Oracle ACE Factory” ;), as recently mentioned by Justin Kestelyn in the May 11, 2011 OPN PartnerCast:

Please join me in congratulating Fahd by adding a comment below.

Are you considering Oracle Exadata as a data warehousing or consolidation solution for your organization? Before you go any further, be sure to join Alex Gorbachev, Oracle ACE Director & Pythian CTO at noon tomorrow (EST) as he outlines where Oracle Exadata is the best fit.

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• Read about LinkShare’s success with Oracle Exadata
• More Oracle Exadata resources
• Hear the project details of Pythian’s successful deployment of Oracle Exadata at LinkShare Corporation in New York, delivering 10x results
• Find out about more upcoming webinars

Building a successful, profitable business isn’t easy. If you’re thinking about it, best to get advice from the “voice of experience”, people who have been in the trenches, fought the startup battle and won.

In an interview with Startup 3.0, Pythian Founder, Paul Vallee tells the tale of how Pythian started and how he built his management team by appointing Andrew Waitman, accomplished businessman and venture capitalist, to the role of CEO. Paul talks candidly about what it takes to build a successful business, provides advice to budding entrepreneurs, and shares the latest Pythian news of being named one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies & opening Pythian’s newest office to bring a new wave of Oracle, MySQL & SQL Server database expertise to Toronto.

Read the full interview.

Thinking of starting a business?

In a recent session with University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management Paul Vallee, winner of the Ottawa Business Journal Forty Under 40 Award states “starting a business is a no-brainer” to a captive audience of student entrepreneurs.

Paul describes how he started Pythian, key traits you need to have to be an entreprenueur, and shares secrets to success.

Read more in the the full Ottawa Business Journal article “Of bootstrapping, business divorce and outsourcing“.

You know you’re a geek when…

Pythian is proudly celebrating International Geek Pride Day! According to the Wikipedia, Geek Pride Day is “an initiative which claims the right of every person to be a nerd or a geek”. In this case, I’ll gladly claim my chance to join the party!

Today I’m sporting an X-Men t-shirt in light of my favorite comic book character (love that bad boy Wolverine), and thinking back to the earlier days of my life where my geekiness was a little more apparent than today.

I briefly experimented with COBOL computer programming at summer camp (and I’m sure Paul Vallee will laugh again reading this as I recalled the language erroneously as Cobolt when I told him the story). My newly learned skills netted me a bumble bee image that flew across the screen. Thrilling!

Throughout grade school, I’d run home from school in record time to make the next episode of Spider-Man. During my early teens on Friday nights I could be found at the neighbours house with the local kids absorbed in a game of D&D.

While I may or may not pass for a geek with my tales above, more importantly today is a reminder and another reason for me to celebrate my Pythian colleagues. Even though some are “geekier” than others, they are all wonderful, unique and special individuals in their own right, and so I wear my X-Men t-shirt with pride today in honor of them.

Got a geeky story to share? Would you classify yourself as a geek? Why?
How would you fill in the blank below?
You know you’re a geek when….

Either create a post and link it to this one, or send me an email with a link to your post, or comment on this post with your response.

Thanks for playing.

Singer Wang celebrates with mascot Domokum.

Pythian is pleased to announce that Paul Vallee, Pythian’s Founder and Executive Chairman, has been named as one of Ottawa’s rising stars on Ottawa Business Journal’s 2011 Forty Under Forty list.

The Forty Under 40 recognizes the amazing achievements of forty accomplished business people under the age of forty. After careful review, the judges, a prestigious group of community leaders, name a list of Ottawa’s top entrepreneurs – people who are driving Ottawa’s economy and setting an example in corporate and philanthropic circles. Nominees are assessed on a 40-point system, using three key criteria: career accomplishments, professional expertise as well as community and charitable involvement.

Paul thanks Pythian’s Ottawa customers and partners for their longstanding support and Pythian’s employees for their dedication to delivering outstanding service.