Jerry Foster’s You Tube Video Provides Hope & Breath of Fresh Air

It’s very compelling and complementary when you find a blog that is just wishing Plexus Online was focusing on their industry. In Delyan Raychev’s blog today he has explained SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and hopes for our entry into the Higher Education market to relieve this market from the high cost that SAP and Sunguard have driven into it.

Jerry Foster’s YouTube video is referenced in Delyan’s blog as a great example of SaaS and he lists the following as the key bullets from Jerry’s video.

• SaaS (specifically Plexus Online) promises 99.9 uptime 24/7
• always "latest and greatest" software for each customer - monthly, daily, hourly updates
• SaaS is mature - not future but past - Plexus Systems have been providing it for 9 years

Delyan, Plexus Online is dedicated to focusing 100% of our resources on the manufacturing market and has no current plans to change that direction. You’ve provided a compelling call for Plexus Online to help in your industry. Maybe Someday…

You can view Delyan’s entire blog entry HERE.

Top Linked SEO's in Greater Detroit Area

I found something interesting today on Google. I currently hold the title of second toped linked SEO in the Greater Detroit Area.

Top Linked SEOs in Greater Detroit Area
2, Kim Hayward, 107, 0, SEO Marketing Manager at Plexus Systems, Inc. Greater Detroit Area. 3, Jeff Raab, 102, 5, Founder & CEO, DealerDex.com

So of course when you find something like this you have to go on a little search to find out who is holding that number one position. I found that he is Andrew Miller of the Greater Detroit Area a Search Engine Marketing Consultant.

So what is a SEO? I spend hours scouring the web looking for a way to improve http://www.plex.com/ listings on the search engines. (Google, Yahoo, MSN) Some of my time is spent managing multi- million dollar budget in Paid Placement Advertisement on those same search engines.

Yet, the majority of my time is spent optimizing pages and content to rank high in the organic or sometimes called the natural search results. Organic/Natural search results allow traffic to reach you at no cost to the company, so that multi-million dollar budget is never spent.

To do that you have to know what is being published about the subject that is being promoted to the search engines. Often the fact that something is being published is not passed on to a person that does the SEO of a company. Tools like netvibes are setup and become a wonderful SEO tool.

Everything I do is created with one end result in mind, increasing the traffic to Plexus Online. My goal is to reach all of the companies in the Manufacturing Industry searching for new software.

I guess the need to provide an explanation of SEO comes from two different emails I received this week. Jerry Foster asking me the question; “How did you find that?” When I published an article from BrentOzar.com. So the short answer Jerry is “Netvibes.com”.

The other email was from Todd Gillissie, Developer, at Plexus Systems and independent game publisher, his latest release is "Shady O'Grady's Rising Star”. Todd, felt more credit should be given to authors of a post on this blog, more so than just the "read more: link. If you jump back up a couple of paragraphs you’ll find the answer to that issue. The paragraph starts with “Everything”. If the "read more" link is not there at the end of an article then it's me.

Jerry Foster: Plexus Systems: Plan Cache Analysis in SQL Server 2005

Here is a bloggers review of the presentation Jerry did today at the PASS Summit 2007.

In contrast to the Dell presenter, Jerry lit up the room as soon as he got started. This guy was born to teach. This was the first SQL seminar I’ve seen where people burst into spontaneous applause during one of his demos, even before he got to a conclusion.

Jerry and the crew at Plexus Online built a slick system to interpret the dynamic management views for the query plan cache. In a nutshell, his queries make it easy to see where load is coming from down to the batch and statement level, all without running a resource-expensive trace on the production servers.

About five minutes into the session, I knew I wouldn’t bother taking notes because I’d print out the slides and pore over them anyway. I downloaded his code the minute he put the URL up on the projector, and I’m going to spend a week going through it. He didn’t give out the source code for his front end, and I’m torn between building my own in classic ASP (miserable language, but I know it well enough to be dangerous) versus SSRS 2008 (which I don’t know at all, but might do well to learn.)

I’m not even going to try to touch base on everything Jerry discussed. Hard-core database engine DBAs owe it to themselves to go get his samples and pore over them.

I got chuckles out of some of the audience members’ questions, though. One of them started picking out differences between memory allocations on 32-bit versus 64-bit servers, trying to find out how much memory over 4gb his 32-bit servers could use for the plan cache. Hey, buddy, if you have to ask that question, then you need to upgrade to 64-bit. And if your database server isn’t capable of upgrading to 64-bit SQL, but you’re sitting in a seminar about caching, then you’ve got your priorities all wrong.

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Jerry Foster 2007 Software Idol Finalist!

A great big THANKS goes out to all of you who took the time to cast your vote for Jerry Foster of Plexus Systems, Inc.!

Jerry has made it to the next round of Software Idol 2007 this honor will provide him with 11 minutes to speak about Development on the Wild Side at the conference in San Jose October 29th-30th, 2007

They have had such a strong set of video submissions that they will be having five slots of eleven minutes each. The audience, will vote for the winner of Software Idol 2007 at the conference. Jerry will be competing for the 2007 Software Idol title against:

Geoff Perlman, founder and CEO of Real Software, on how to avoid long shipping cycles.

Bob Walsh, managing partner of 47hats.com, MicroISV owner and author of two books, speaking about blogging.

Jeff Gordon, author of the Software Licensing Handbook, speaking about the 5 fundamental skills of negotiation

Steve Johnson, of Pragmatic Marketing on why software companies are run as the hobbies of developers

Jerry Foster Enters 'Software Idol' Contest

If you have a moment please visit: http://www.businessofsoftware.org/softwareidol.aspx and vote for Plexus Systems own Jerry Foster.

This year Business of Software 2007 is holding a 'Software Idol' contest to choose 3 speakers each speaker will gain an 18 minute slot to speak at Business of Software 2007. You're vote will put Jerry one step closer to showing those attending the event how Plexus Online can help them grow and manage business better.

The people who are invited to speak at Business of Software 2007 are world-class thinkers, doers, writers and speakers. We think Jerry Foster and Plexus Online are just what they are looking for.

Jerry Foster to speak at 2007 PASS Community Summit on SQL Server

2007 PASS Community Summit on SQL Server

Plexus Online ERP's - Jerry Foster is one of the founders and Chief Technical Officer of Plexus Systems, where he has been the development and technical lead for over 16 years. Plexus's premier product, Plexus Online, is the first and only fully integrated, on-demand manufacturing software hosted completely over the internet.

Jerry has transitioned the development department through each phase of Plexus Online, starting with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, 2000, and now 2005. While at Plexus, Jerry has been responsible for maintaining and improving performance of this highly transactional combination OLTP/OLAP system.