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Yearly Archives: 2006

ECM Consolidation

By Dick Weisinger

Major consolidation among the top-tiered ECM vendors has created uncertainty as the vendors are rebranding and repositioning their acquisitions.  Open Text’s purchase of Hummingbird closed over the last week. After the recent acquisitions, the top 3 ECM market players will now be

Book: Enterprise SOA Adoption Strategies

By Dick Weisinger

A new book called Enterprise SOA Adoption Strategies by Steve Jones is available for free download (after registration) and can also be purchased here.  Steve is the CapGemini UK CTO for Application Development Transformation. The book’s approach is based the OASIS SOA

The GIF File Format is Finally Free

By Dick Weisinger

On Sunday the last remaining patent on the GIF file format expired.  From the GNU web site: We were able to search the patent databases of the USA, Canada, Japan, and the European Union. The Unisys patent expired on 20

SOA Governance — What is it?

By Dick Weisinger

SOA Governance has been headlined in the IT news over the last couple of months, and analysts like Gartner’s Paolo Malinverno say things like “Service-oriented architecture governance isn’t an option — it’s an imperative.”  But just what is SOA Governance? A major goal of

And Some Stats on SaaS Adoption…

By Dick Weisinger

Yesterday I gave some SOA adoption numbers.  There are some new numbers out this week too about SaaS and are showing the SaaS delivery model gaining momentum.  SaaS is a hosted deployment that is sold on a pay-for-use or subscription