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Yearly Archives: 2010

Technology: How will we do business 10 years from now?

By Dick Weisinger

10 years is a long time for technology.  Things change quickly — something that used to be called “running on Internet Time”.  In 2000 AIIM had just coined the term ECM for Enterprise Content Management.  2000 was the same year

Cloud Computing: A Slow Spread to Small and Medium Sized Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud-based application vendors are increasingly targeting small companies (1-99 employees) and many small companies have signed up, primarily for reasons of cheaper cost and greater agility.   But there are also very many small companies that still think of themselves

Open Source: Vendors increasingly Turn to Open Source When Building Proprietary Software

By Dick Weisinger

The Zenoss survey we cited in yesterday’s blog found that 98 percent of companies have Open Source software running somewhere in their companies.  It turns out that even SAP is changing its mind about Open Source.   SAP has long

Open Source: Quality, Flexibility and Cost

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source has matured to the point where it is now used to some extent in every company.  98 percent of respondents to a survey said that their organizations make use of Open Source in some way.  The people answering

Business Intelligence: Open Source Catching Up, but Still Lags Proprietary

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source software pervades almost every segment of technology.  In some areas Open Source even has even become the leader.  For example, Linux versus UNIX, or Alfresco versus traditional ECM vendors.  Open Source Business Intelligence software is one area where