The most popular and comprehensive Open Source ECM platform
There’s a lot of people convinced that Open Source is huge. That it’s disruptive. That it’s the future. But there are also a lot of people struggling with business plans that try to make Open Source their centerpiece. About a…
In 2005, in an attempt to compete with free Open Source databases like MySQL and with Microsoft’s lower priced SQL Server, Oracle introduced a free version of their Oracle 10 database, the Oracle 10g Express Edition (XE). Oracle Database XE…
A new generation of document creation applications is again sparking a war of competing file formats. Microsoft’s .doc Word format won the first round and has remained for some time the most popular file format and de facto standard for…
IBM’s ‘Toxic Terrabyte’ predictions may be a bit over the top in estimating how quickly today’s storage demands will scale to out-of-control proportions. A more conservative estimate, but one that still indicates robust growth in the industry, was released from The…
IBM Global Technology Services forecasts explosive growth in worldwide storage requirements in a July 2006 white paper called “The Toxic Terabyte: How Data-Dumping Threatens Business Efficiency”. The document is an interesting read and has some statistics, some of which verge on…