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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…

Big Data: Bringing Growth to Rural Communities

By Dick Weisinger

Prineville, Oregon; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Quincy, Washington; The Dalles, Oregon; Mahwah, New Jersey.   Are these the cities that will drive future US economic growth?  These are becoming hubs of growth around cloud computing and big data research.   While the…

Private Cloud Computing: Easier Said than Done

By Dick Weisinger

The benefits of cloud computing include flexibility and cost savings.  Scalability of resources is really the key to its popularity of the cloud.  The traditional approach to infrastructure divvies up servers and processing power based on the applications running in…

SaaS: Even in the Long Term SaaS is More Competitive

By Dick Weisinger

When looking at the costs of a software solution deployed via SaaS versus one deployed via as a traditional on-site implementation, the cost benefits of SaaS are clear. There is no software license fee with SaaS. There’s no hardware costs…