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PLM: SMBs Bulk up on PLM

By Dick Weisinger

PLM market leaders Siemens and PTC are both reporting sales successes in the small and medium sized business. PTC saw strong sales of its WindChill product in fourth quarter 2007, and they report that their growth isn’t coming from the…

Storage: Sun's Open Source Archiving with Project Honeycomb

By Dick Weisinger

Sun has Open-Sourced their Project Honeycomb software, the software that powers their StorageTek 5800 Archive System. The software will run on any standard x86 system and can be downloaded here. The source code is archived at the OpenSolaris storage and…

Enterprise Search: Can you Find it?

By Dick Weisinger

Can you find it?  The resounding answer from a majority of enterprise users is ‘No’! In two separate polls, users said that they’re frustrated and want a better solution for search for enterprise information. Author and researcher Stephen Arnold found…

SOA: IBM Sees Need for T-Shaped Skills

By Dick Weisinger

IBM continues to warn of a Skills Shortage in SOA. Last fall an IBM-sponsored ZapThink survey found that more than half the companies surveyed had less than 25 percent of the skills needed to build out SOA-based enterprise solutions. In…

Open Source: OS Trends in the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

OpenLogic published a list of Open Source trends that they see developed in 2007:OpenLogic found that an average enterprise now uses 94 open source packages, that’s up from the 75 they counted in 2006, an increase of 26%. Next the…