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Content Management: Video Changes the Game

By Dick Weisinger

With 44 percent of enterprises already archiving video information and another 22 percent preparing to do the same in 2009, content management needs to change to keep up. Most content management systems have targeted images and office-style electronic documents. The…

Open Source: Hidden Backbone of the Software Industry

By Dick Weisinger

2008 — Year of Acceptance for OS Another survey is in, this time from Forrester Research, and the results point again to very high acceptance and usage of Open Source in enterprises. Whether it was the economy or just better…

Open Source: OS Database Usage and Spending is Way Up

By Dick Weisinger

It’s only been a year or two since our comments about analyst reports often overlooking or omitting software reviews for open source products. MySQL, for example, is frequently overlooked in the roundup analysis for database market share. Those days appear…

Open Source: OS Database Usage and Spending is Way Up

By Dick Weisinger

It’s only been a year or two since I commented that Analyst reports often overlooked or omitted software reviews for open source products.  MySQL, for example, was frequently overlooked in the roundup analysis for database market share. Those days appear…

Technology: Software Licenses Can Erase Virtualization Savings

By Dick Weisinger

Software virtualization is proving itself to offer great benefits in manageability and hardware consolidation. It has the potential for offering huge savings. But the terms of the licenses for the software that runs on your machines may cancel out any…