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SaaS: SAP Targets on-Demand

By Dick Weisinger

SAP is planning an event in New York September 19th to announce code-named A1S, SAP’s answer to SaaS. A1S will allow SAP to begin to offer to middle-size companies business applications delivered on-Demand. SAP is spending $500 million around the…

Storage: Wasted Storage Clogs Servers

By Dick Weisinger

Sun Microsystems reports that only 30% of enterprise storage space is being productively used. The rest of the data being stored consists of seldom or never accessed files and unallocated space.  Redundant data can often be found scattered across multiple…

Oracle: Is Oracle Ready to Move on SaaS? Maybe. But how does Oracle define SaaS?

By Dick Weisinger

We’ve commented here before about Oracle’s small presence in the SaaS marketplace, and without Oracle Siebel CRM offering, there doesn’t seem much else to mention. But part of what’s different about Oracle is their perception and thought process around what…

Technology: Long Java! Hello Erlang!

By Dick Weisinger

Java, as we know it, has only been around for a little over a decade. C++ has been around for nearly three decades. Basic is forty years old, and Fortran is more than fifty years old. In between there have…

SOA: ROI Questioned

By Dick Weisinger

Only 37 percent of enterprises employing SOA are seeing any return on their investment. That’s the conclusion of a recent report done by Nucleus Research and Knowledgestorm. It’s a statistic that knocks the wind out of a lot of recent…