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Oracle: MySQL Makes In-Roads Among RDBMS users

By Dick Weisinger

While the Oracle machine is firing on all cylinders, it is still under attack from many sides, notably SaaS and Open Source. And among those competitors in the Open Source category, MySQL is leading the charge against Oracle’s flagship database…

Open Source: A Contrast to the Commercial Approach

By Dick Weisinger

Selling commercial enterprise software isn’t easy. With average sales cycles lasting six to eighteen months, the upfront sales and marketing investment to drum up interest and get the word out can be high. Contrast that with the model of Open…

ECM: Enterprises Reaching Out With Social Networking

By Dick Weisinger

Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn are hot now. But new technology is slow in pentrating the enterprise. Slow, but it is happening… Unfortunately all too often it is usually happening in a way that is out of…

SOA: Skills Shortage Threatens Growth

By Dick Weisinger

While SOA is becoming a preferred technology in the enterprise, one thing holding it back is simply the lack of IT professionals trained and experienced with SOA technologies. More than half of the companies in a recent IBM/ZapThink sponsored survey…

SaaS: So Many Ways to Deliver IT

By Dick Weisinger

Times have changed.  Mainframes gave way to Client/Server, only to give way to the Internet.  But the delivery vehicle for IT services is being reshaped into so many different forms lately, it is hard to keep up.  The traditional software…