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Yearly Archives: 2006

Oracle Profits Soar

By Dick Weisinger

  Oracle surprised analysts and announced impressive earnings and growth across the board for their 2007 Q1 period ending August 31st. In terms of Oracle’s middleware vision and product direction, the strong results that Oracle reported this week make sense.  At

Microsoft Sets SOAP Free

By Dick Weisinger

Buried in the recent news is an olive branch from Microsoft to the Open Source community.  Microsoft has a large list of patents related to SOAP and Web Services specifications.  Last week Microsoft announced that they would not seek claims on these patents,

World Wide Webfeeds

By Dick Weisinger

A webfeed is a low-bandwidth XML stream available on the network that can be easily consumed by custom or special webfeed reader applications.  In a previous blog I discussed how webfeeds often form the raw data to support mashup applications and have the

Enterprise Search Technology remains Hot

By Dick Weisinger

The Enterprise Search heat wave continues.  Back in 2004, KMWorld declared Enterprise Search hot.  And now an updated report from Forrester last week says that the field is still scorching as we move into 2007. Forrester names the top three company