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Open Source: Investments Flow Into Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Yesterday was a big day for Open Source investment funding. GreenPlum, Alfresco, and Zenoss all received investment dollars. Greenplum received $27 million from Meritech Capital partners, Sun Microsystems, SAP Ventures and others. Greenplum is an Open Source Postgresql-based database that…

Open Source: Sun Shines With LAMP

By Dick Weisinger

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Php/Perl) has long been considered a basic building block of the Internet. Last week Sun bought a piece of the LAMP with their agreement to purchase MySQL for $1 billion. MySQL CEO Marten Mickos along…

Technology: Enterprise Software Consolidation Likely to Continue in 2008

By Dick Weisinger

2007 proved to be another year of consolidation. SAP acquired Business Objects. IBM got Cognos. Oracle got Hyperion. Cisco got WebEx. And this activity follows up large numbers of acquisitions that occurred in 2006 and 2005. It is shaping up…

e-Discovery: Dramatic Savings with Categorization

By Dick Weisinger

Emails and electronic documents now dominate today’s business communication. As a result, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) includes requirements for how to handle electronically stored information during litigation and regulatory investigations. The process of forensic inspection of electronic…

Oracle: A Day of Acquisitions

By Dick Weisinger

January has been a down month for the market — even yesterday’s slew of tech merger announcements couldn’t reverse the trend: two acquisitions by Oracle, and one that has serious implications for Oracle. Oracle purchased BEA software for $8.5 billion.…