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Technology: Problem Solved. Game Over.

By Dick Weisinger

News@Nature ran a story about how a group at the University of Alberta, Canada, led by Jonathan Schaeffer, has created a computer program called Chinook that ‘solves’ the game of checkers. No matter how good of a game you can…

Compliance: Oxley Firmly Stands Behind SOX on Five Year Anniversary

By Dick Weisinger

July 30th will be the five year anniversary of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The bill was named after its two sponsors, Senator Paul Sarbanes and Representative Michael G. Oxley. The act contains 11 titles and empowers the Security and…

Oracle: Fusion Strategy Comes Together

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle’s $25-billion strategy of acquisition and Fusion is starting to pay off. Last year April, Forrester gave the edge to SAP. At that time SAP led the enterprise application marketplace with $10 billion in sales, compared to second place Oracle…

IBM: Major Force Behind SOA Movement

By Dick Weisinger

IBM has been a leader of the SOA movement for some time, involved in the drafting of standards and specifications, in educating both business and IT staff and executives, and in developing products and tools for implementing SOA. As might…

SOA: The Long Road to Enterprise SOA

By Dick Weisinger

Burton Group‘s Anne Thomas Manes recently was quoted as saying that “an awful lot of companies are really not ready to do SOA“. SOA is not so much about technology as it is “how you think about the problem”. But…