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Open Source: Another Wrinkle in Business Models

By Dick Weisinger

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…

Oracle: SQL Server Pricing Model Forces Oracle to Lower Costs

By Dick Weisinger

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…

Standards: California Enters ODF versus OOXML Debate

By Dick Weisinger

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…

Storage: Robust Growth Predicted

By Dick Weisinger

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…

Storage: Growth of Unstructured Data Fuels Storage Needs

By Dick Weisinger

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…