Daily Links for 13 March 2012

$319/hr for Oracle on-premise, vs $9/hr for MySQL on EC2. Woah. http://t.co/VLZsoNCN

— Gunnar Hellekson (@ghelleks) March 13, 2012

"I love wiki editors that hide the markup from me so I don't have complete control over the content." ~Nobody, ever #confluence

— Bob Servability (@obfuscurity) March 13, 2012

Nice to see @markbotech featured on @GovLoop with his @CommerceGov interview with @mikekruger | http://t.co/YjMUk0Iw #opengov

— Jason Hibbets (@jhibbets) March 13, 2012

I thought this place was joking about giving me a French press to go, but no. http://t.co/DMtQ4zxQ

— Jacob Grier (@jacobgrier) March 13, 2012

My #SXSW presentation on #civichacking in #Philadelphia and #Baltimore is now online. Thoughts / feedback welcomed! http://t.co/5SKzqacZ

— Mark Headd (@mheadd) March 13, 2012

"The best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly." http://t.co/hvSYNXuo

— Gunnar Hellekson (@ghelleks) March 13, 2012

"embrace open source opportunities whenever you can" says Austin's Web Manager

— Kevin Curry (@kmcurry) March 13, 2012

Would love to hear how @CodeForAmerica cracked the city procurement piece. Wonder what tender looked like+who their competition was #gov20

— Dominic Campbell (@dominiccampbell) March 13, 2012