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Open Source: Enterprise usage to double in three years

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source has claimed about 10 percent of all enterprise software used today, and that number is expected to be 15 to 20 percent by 2010. Those are the results of a recent study by Saugatuck Technology. And, as a…

Open Source: Following the Cycle From Boom to Bust

By Dick Weisinger

What does the market think of Open Source? That was the subject of an academic study written by a group from the University of Munich. The study found that from a market perspective Open Source has traveled from a high…

PLM: Still Holes in the Holy Grail

By Dick Weisinger

“The holy grail of product lifecycle management (PLM) is characterized by connection of the supply chain, product development, and shop floor under one decision support umbrella,” said Jeffrey Hojlo in AMR Research’s June 2007 document “The Future of PLM: Decision…

Oracle: PLM Fused into the Oracle Machine

By Dick Weisinger

Charles Phillips, Oracle’s President, took the opportunity at the keynote address of this week’s Oracle OpenWorld to show off Oracle’s latest addition to their family of Enterprise Software products: Oracle PLM. That’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Actually, Oracle Agile PLM.…

Enterprise Software: Analysts Predict Enterprise Software business will Skid Lower

By Dick Weisinger

The same day that Oracle is touting itself as the world’s largest Enterprise Software company, Merrill Lynch gave the enterprise software space thumbs down. After factoring in the overall economic outlook and slow growth performance from the first quarter, Merrill…