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Sarbanes-Oxley: The Real Cost of Compliance

By Dick Weisinger

What exactly does it cost a company to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley? Especially for small companies, the costs have been fuzzy. The SEC had estimated that small company compliance costs $91,000. A new report now finds that the SEC number wasn’t…

SOA: Is SOA Still 10 to 20 Years Away?

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle was up 35% in the last quarter, with much of that gain coming from a strong showing with its applications, but its middleware business is running strong too with a 28% increase. And much of Oracle’s middleware targets the…

SOA: Integrating Data

By Dick Weisinger

SOA is commonly used to knit together heterogeneous data sources. But as is often the case, the theory and potential for a technology is often far different than what is observed in practice. Very often project run into a kind…

SaaS: Faster, Higher Quality, and, oh yeah, Cheaper

By Dick Weisinger

When people talk about SaaS, the discussion usually starts and focuses on the cost savings possible when deploying on-demand. Those cost savings come from things like reduced in-house IT hardware and support costs, no upfront hefty licensing fees, no maintenance…

SOA: Service Oriented Storage

By Dick Weisinger

Services Oriented Architecture and storage technologies are converging into something that people are beginning to dub Services Oriented Storage (SOS), one component of a Service Oriented Infrastructure. A proliferation of proprietary technology storage solutions in the marketplace is confusing customers.…