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Sarbanes-Oxley: SOX spins round the World

By Dick Weisinger

Over the five years since Sarbanes-Oxley has been enacted, it has received a good share of criticism for being too strict, too vague,… too much. But that hasn’t stopped other countries from studying it, and it some cases copying it.…

SaaS: Gartner Lowers Forecast for SaaS Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner adjusted lower its estimates of the SaaS market size and also lowered predictions for worldwide SaaS growth from those made in March 2007. In March, Gartner said the worldwide SaaS market was $6.3 billion. The new report readjusts the…

Records Management: $20 Million a Pop

By Dick Weisinger

When a mega-software company like Microsoft gets involved in litigation that involves the eDiscovery process of researching email and company documents, the average cost works out to be about $20 million. And these cases aren’t isolated incidents. They happen regularly…

Technology: How Smart can You Make Your Data?

By Dick Weisinger

Casino’s have long been leaders in collecting massive amounts of details about their customers. Casinos like MGM Mirage and Harrah’s Entertainment keep multi-terabyte databases on millions of their customers, tracking all sorts of minutiae to help them personalize customer incentives,…

Open Source: Sun Tries to Catch Linux

By Dick Weisinger

Linux was first released in September, 1991. Sun Microsystem’s UNIX-based Solaris operating system goes back to a product called SunOS which was first introduced in 1983. Solaris debuted in the early 1990’s, and an open source version of Solaris, called…