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Open Source: Mandating Open Source in the Government

By Dick Weisinger

Commercial companies with Open Source products have approached the white house in an attempt to convince the Obama administration that the government should favor Open Source over proprietary commercial alternatives. The letter from nineteen executives included: Open Solutions Alliance President…

Enterprise Software: Don't Bank on it

By Dick Weisinger

As the financial crisis wears on we’ve been witness to a steady string of failures and mergers of financial institutions.  While the merged survivors are lucky to still exist, the next step of mending and merging their IT systems might…

Google: Structured Data is Hard

By Dick Weisinger

We talk a lot about how hard it is to unlock the data stored in spreadsheets, powerpoints, and text documents — unstructured data.  Generally the assumption has been that searching for data stored in structured database tables is easy and…

Compliance: Unified Compliance

By Dick Weisinger

Thinking about and planning for compliance is not easy. What normally comes to mind when you think compliance are things like processes, audits and software applications that manage information types like email, documents and records.  But when considering compliance, there…

Content Management: CMIS to Squash Content Connector Market

By Dick Weisinger

CMSWire recently asked the question: Will CMIS stifle and eventually kill the Content Connector Market?  CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) is a standards proposal based on Web services for sharing information among disparate content repositories that seeks to ensure interoperability…