Donner’s Daily Dose of Drama

The Austrian police is testing a Porsche 911. Apparently they get to drive the car for six months free of charge and will then return it to the manufacturer - there is no plan to actually purchase any at €90,000 a piece, after rebate. The 350hp sports car is obviously not a top-of-the-line model, but nevertheless a great PR success for Porsche and the police. One questions remains unanswered, though: what happens when you hold this stop sign out of the window at 140 mph?

Meanwhile, across the border in the South, the Italians continue to drive their two Lamborghini Gallardos. The 500hp give this car quite a bit more crime fighting power. And people across the world something to blog about. Molto azurro!

There has been one single thing that I could not get out of my mind ever since I started entrenching myself in research about Open Source Business Intelligence for a conference talk. I am talking about what kind of products should be considered “Business Intelligence” in a wider sense, and what shouldn’t. I learned from Wikipedia that Howard Dresner coined the term “BI” in 1989 to “describe a set of concepts and methods to improve business decision-making by using fact-based support systems”. This is a fairly wide definition, but arguably, your operating system should not be included in this set of concepts and methods. Jasper Reports* should not, either.