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Content Management: Served Up By the Sip

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon is trying to turn content delivery into a commodity. Amazon’s goal is to be able to deliver pay-as-you-go content delivery with very low-latency. Their new content delivery network is built on top of their very successful S3 storage infrastructure,…

Compliance: What Next?

By Dick Weisinger

Sarbanes-Oxley regulations caused companies of all sizes to complain of the onerous amount of additional work required to be compliant. The complaints rang loud and eventually caused the SEC to scale back on the ruling, especially for small and mid-sized…

Open Source: Court Upholds OS License

By Dick Weisinger

A recent court ruling upholds Open Source licensing and the ability of license holders to control how code is modified and distributed. The ruling is the result of the lawsuit Jacobsen versus Katzer. In that case the company Kamind Associates…

Open Source: Google aided by Microsoft

By Dick Weisinger

The tech world is abuzz today with the somewhat ironic news that Google’s new browser Chrome is partly built on code that originated in an Open Source project authored by Microsoft. One of the twenty-four third-party components used in Chrome…

Technology: Open Source DBs win Adoptors

By Dick Weisinger

More and more enterprise data centers are giving Open Source databases a try. And many are liking what they see. While it’s not clear how Sun will ever be able to monetize back the $1 billion they spent to acquire…