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Collaboration: Adobe Acrobat 8 Connects Users

By Dick Weisinger

Adobe Acrobat 8 has been out for almost a year, yet you seldom hear about some of the built-in collaboration features that went into version 8. This version attempts to integrate the Breeze and Flash, two technologies Adobe acquired from…

SaaS: Oracle Sticks to Middleware in its Approach to the SaaS Market

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle (ORCL) recently introduced Siebel 14, an updated version of its on-demand CRM offering. There has been speculation for some time that Oracle would move more aggressively into the SaaS market, but beyond CRM, that hasn’t really happened. Why it…

Open Source: What's Stopping Open Source HealthCare?

By Dick Weisinger

At the 2005 JavaOne, both Scott McNeally and Jonathan Schwartz of Sun discussed their ambitious goal of rallying the Java community around solving tough software problems in the areas of education and eHealth. Their keynote addresses highlighted an Open Source…

ECM: A Market Getting Primed to Take Off?

By Dick Weisinger

InformationWeek is reporting that the ECM market, a market that many feel has become saturated, hasn’t even begun to take off yet.  They argue that many medium-sized companies that have been content to rely on shared file servers that make…

ECM: Shared Folders evolve into File Area Networks

By Dick Weisinger

The shared public folder is a most basic form of content management found in almost any organization. Public folders provide a simple way to organize and share data, and for many purposes they work well enough. But things like compliance…