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Structured Data: Microsoft's SQL Server is still on Top

By Dick Weisinger

When it comes to revenue, Oracle is the number one relational database. Gartner reported the following numbers for Oracle in 2006: Has 47.1 percent share (up from 46.8 percent in 2005) growing at 14.9 percent Is growing faster than the…

SOA: Java Threatens Microsoft's .Net

By Dick Weisinger

SOA and Microsoft’s .Net are not mutually exclusive things, but the long-term success of SOA may become a threat to .Net. A recent survey by Evans Data found that the number of developers using Java to implement SOA has grown…

SOA: Is this the path to simplifying a complex technology?

By Dick Weisinger

To fight the criticism of SOA complexity, the IT industry standards body OASIS has responded in a strange way: they’ve created six new technical committees (TCs) to go off and hammer out more specifications. The world of SOA is already…

Oracle: Oracle-Look-alike Could Spell Lost Sales for Oracle

By Dick Weisinger

An earlier Formtek blog discussed how Oracle’s core RDBMS product is being undercut in price by both Microsoft’s SQL Server and MySQL. Most shops running Oracle know there are options out there, but most fear the risk and costs involved…

Sarbanes-Oxley: The Unsung Benefits

By Dick Weisinger

In an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, Thomas Healey, senior fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, outlines benefits and positive results coming from Sarbanes-Oxley legislation that he thinks many are over-looking: The US economy, rather than…