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Oracle: Is the High Price Worth It?

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle’s relational database has a lot of competitors, but it is still considered to be the best. And bolstered by a variety of acquisitions, Oracle is pretty strong across a wide range of business application categories. But choosing Oracle isn’t…

ECM: Vendors Drowning in a Red Ocean

By Dick Weisinger

W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne‘s bestseller Blue Ocean Strategy divides businesses and products environments into two types: Red and Blue Oceans. Red Ocean environments are those competing in markets that are highly overcrowded, saturated and commoditized. On the other…

SOA: Adoption Numbers Too Positive

By Dick Weisinger

Evans Data reported that half of Enterprise software developers will be programming within an SOA environment in two years. And Gartner found that for big companies, those with more than 40,000 employees, that more than 67% are already using SOA.…

Enterprise2.0: Wikis Storm the Workplace

By Dick Weisinger

Wiki leader SocialText is reporting that more than a quarter of US enterprises are using wikis. These are the results of a survey given to 258 enterprise professionals by IDC. The benefits of a corporate wiki were summarized in the…

Open Source: Governments Reassess Commercial Software

By Dick Weisinger

Matt Asay, former Novell executive, VP of Open Source vendor Alfresco, and champion of the Open Source movement has a summary of a research article by Jyh-An Lee called “Production: Policy Implications of Open Source Software”. The crux of the…