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Open Source: 'Free' is becoming more pricey

By Dick Weisinger

SD Times had an interesting observation about how expensive it’s getting to be to buy an Open Source company. Company Buyer Price Year XenSource Citrix Systems $500 Million 2007 JBoss Red Hat $350 Million 2006 Check Point Software SourceFile $225…

Technology: Cure for the Patent Mess?

By Dick Weisinger

Everyone agrees that the patent system has become a mess. The US Patent and Trademark office is overwhelmed. In 2005 there was a backlog of 490,000 patents waiting for review. Last Summer the backlog stood at 600,000 patents. In less…

Technology: Traditional companies being eclipsed by the Red-Shift?

By Dick Weisinger

Much the same way that the Universe is ever expanding, so too are some companies in their campaign to push the envelope of IT.  Sun is calling it the ‘red shift’.  Companies that don’t have exploding processing requirements are called…

ECM: Continued Growth in Content Management

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner is predicting that the Enterprise Content Management market will continue to grow at a healthy 12 percent per year through 2010. Recent numbers for 2007, like those from Open Text, coming in at around 10 percent, are confirming this…

SOA: Expectations Cup One-Third Empty?

By Dick Weisinger

Informationweek recently published the results of a satisfaction survey given to 278 companies that have actively been trying out or at least kicking the tires of SOA technologies. Two-thirds of the respondents found the technology met or exceeded their expectations.…