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MicroStrategy Symposium in Dusseldorf (October 2008)
Mar 5th
Yesterday I gave a talk at the MicroStrategy Symposium in Dusseldorf. The theme of my presentation was “High-performance reporting with MicroStrategy and Teradata.”
Since I’ve caught a cold last weekend pretty much, was my biggest worry is that I will interrupt my speech every 5 minutes by uncontrollable coughing fits. EinPaar against dry cough lozenges, however, have worked wonderfully and I could entertain my audience for nearly an hour long carefree.
After I’ve heard some even had hundreds of speeches in my life, I wanted to bore my audience in any case with the superficial marketing films. I simply could not allow that they will be too technical, because I did not sleep the total of the coveted audience wanted to risk it.
I assumed that my audience will have relatively good knowledge of MicroStrategy: otherwise they would not participate in the MicroStrategy Symposium. The Teradata information could however be rather rare so far. For this reason I have my old “MicroStrategy and Teradata” presentations that I prepared for Teradata customers can use without further: they provided the functionality of MicroStrategy in the forefront and dealt with the concepts of Teradata only marginally. I have therefore one new lecture prepared, which has included, inter alia, a 5-slide introduction to the Teradata architecture.
Minus: Some “human losses” during the lecture.
Plus: positive feedback after the lecture.
If you, dear reader, have heard my talk, write me please, what out of your sight was good and what needs improvement.
Original article is here. Translated using Google Translator.
Looking for opportunities in Toronto
Feb 18th
April 12, 2010: I’m looking no more 
I have recently gained the Permanent Resident status for Canada and I will be moving in Toronto next month. Hurray!!!
So if you are one of our frequent readers from GTA and you just happen to know a place well suited for an experienced and innovative MicroStrategy developer, please contact me at ssorin@gmail.com or check out my full profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/sorinsuciu.
Thanks for your patronage
Sep 28th
I closely monitor the inbound web links for blog. It gives me a good insight about what users are looking for and gives me ideas about future posts too. Something that I do check every week is the Alexa rank and I jumped off my seat when I saw my rank today. MicroStrategy101 blog have been so popular in India that it received a India specific rank. Wow! Totally baffled. Gives me more energy to blog and participate in forum. Thanks a lot. I’ve started tweetering too, so do follow. Though personally ranking is not that great, but it is a good step forward.
MicroStrategy101 blog's Alexa rank
Thanks you very much to all fellow bloggers and you.
Cease and Desist letter from MicroStrategy, Inc
Sep 13th
Few friends wanted to see a copy of the letter received from MicroStrategy, Inc. Here is the copy.
MicroStrategy Cease and Desist
This is the biggest pain reliever I’ve in my life. Whenever I feel sad, I open copy of this letter to forget everything and laugh. Simply can’t believe MicroStrategy, Inc would do such a thing to me. Sometime legal/para legal ways are not the best way to do things. I pity on MicroStrategy, Inc having hired visually handicapped people, miserably unfit to do their jobs, reached position of VP and para legal. 
Last but not least, never received the promised letter by FadEx, something extremely critical to pursue the case against the current domain name holder.
Reply to MicroStrategy about domain Cease and Desist
Sep 6th
This one is from archive. Totally missed. Someone holding the position of VP at MicroStrategy, Inc. sent me the cease and desist letter about owing domains – microstrategy.co.in and microstrategy.in. I was totally shocked about having received such a warning and I was very much laxed about a reply thinking what can they do. Even if NIXI (manages the .IN Registry) awards the domain to, I would take a court stay. But that was a wrong thinking. I was just browsing the ICANN site about replying a domain name C&D notice and I came to know that mere not replying (in 20 calendar days – as per set rules) to C&D notice is sufficient for a domain owner to lose the domain forever, which could not be challenged to the domain registry or ICANN (rare of rare exception). One can read the site of ICANN about how to answer a domain name cease and desist letter. As per ICANN, all the allegation must be replied, else you may lose your case. A complainant may have several charges and all should be replied.
BTW, as per letter received from MicroStrategy, Inc. they had sent the cease and desist letter to my postal address, which I happen to have left just a month before. I have duly notified my registrar about the domain, but whois is still shows the old addresses Said offline letter was never received to the address and thus as per ICANN rules they loose the case. A complainant must send the cease and desist online (which they did) as well as offline, a very strict rule of ICANN. They will have to show the Registrar a proof of delivery of offline notice, who will arbitrate the domain ownership dispute.
Have a look at the reply of cease and desist letter received from MicroStrategy, Inc.
MicroStrategy Cease and Desist REPIED
Something I would never forget that there was 20 time increase in the spam on my MicroStrategy forum which coincided reply to the cease and desist letter. Since February and till June, I’ve spent considerable amount of time deleting spam from forum. It is very hard alone handling lot of things. MicroStrategy, Inc also started allowing any register user with support account, accessing the official MicroStrategy forum too, only after the above sent reply. 
. I had to go to extent of allowing post to contain spam and I’ve found that to be the best ant-spam too for a forum based on phpBB. Worst impact, the forum lost the popularity and MicroStrategy official forum gained very much; but now the trend has got reversed in last 2 months. Something to be happy.
P.S. – Don’t get annoyed by the reply. As per ICANN domain name dispute. cease and desist notice must be replied with specific words and sentences.
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