Part 2 of Our Grand Experiment

This morning we announced the launch of two new sites; siblings to sqlserverpedia. You can read the press release from this morning here.
SQLServerPedia has exceeded every metric and every expectation we had set (we like to keep our standards extremely low so we always leap over the bar ), so now it’s time to see if the experiment works in other domains. We’ve decided to tackle a bit of the old and a bit of the new to see how different communities respond.
OraDBPedia is a knowledge-base aimed at the Oracle database crowd (bet you never guessed that right?). This is an area that Quest has a lot of thought-leadership in, and a long history. It’s where we made our name, and Toad is still the most widely used tool in that space. However, at first glance the characteristics of the Oracle community are different to the SQLServer crowd; users don’t seem to be as prevalent on Twitter and there isn’t the volume of independent blogs that we are used to seeing in SQL Server. Oracle themselves are much more of a closed community-type company than Microsoft, so maybe that’s why. Anyway, we look forward to learning more and reporting back our findings.
CloudDBPedia is a knowledge-base aimed at the non-relational world (cloud databases, NoSQL databases, Hadoop). We want to become the thought-leaders in this new world, as we are in the RDBMS world. Now, the characteristics of this community are absolutely fascinating – it is all you would expect of a community that is growing in a world of Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook – so the learning curve we experience here will be steep and we’ll have to respond fast if we are to succeed. We look forward to the challenge and to keeping you apprised of lessons learned the hard way.