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Storage: Sun Applies Open Source to Storage

By Dick Weisinger

Since 2004 Sun has pursued a strategy that has been highlighted by Open Source products: the OpenSolaris Operating System, the GlassFish Application Server, the MySQL database, Java as GPL, and now their attempt to apply Open Source to storage. Like…

SaaS: Leading Software Innovation?

By Dick Weisinger

Software Innovation? You haven’t seen anything yet! That’s the conclusion of a joint report by McKinsey and Company and the Sand Hill Company. After interviewing 857 enterprise software customers they found that 62 percent felt that while there’s been good…

PLM: Convergence of Software

By Dick Weisinger

Software giants like Oracle are changing the scope of Enterprise Software. Oracle’s vision of Fusion is uniting software suites that have long had no relationship. Consider ERP and PLM. While ERP has been the backbone of business infrastructure, PLM has…

Open Source: A Census to Find out How Many Copies are Out There

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source projects typically boast thousands and sometimes millions of downloads, but doing a download isn’t the same thing as an installing and using the software in production. Open source just makes it too easy to download, and because of…

Enterprise Data: Vendors move in lock-step

By Dick Weisinger

IDC announced marketshare figures for major database companies based on data for 2007. Vendors’ slices of the market haven’t budged a whole lot from 2006. IDC reports that the overall Database market grew to $18.6 billion in 2007, 12.1% higher…