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Open Source: Is it Free or What?

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source? That’s free software isn’t it? That’s an answer you’ll frequently hear. But it’s only part of the answer; the complete answer is much more complex. And pinning down an exact definition of what Open Source is has been…

Salesforce.com offers SOA as SaaS

By Dick Weisinger

Late in May Salesforce.com announced their offering of a new product, Salesforce SOA. It is being offered as part of its new platform and development language called Apex. Salesforce has positioned their Apex-based SOA solution as being much simpler and…

Compliance: Costs Drop as Sarbanes-Oxley Becomes Standard Practice

By Dick Weisinger

The sixth of a series of surveys by Financial Executives International (FEI) about Sarbanes-Oxley was recently released. Somewhat surprisingly, the study found that total costs of compliance at large corporations dropped 23% over the past year and 35% when compared…

Open Source: Steady Revenue Growth

By Dick Weisinger

By the standard of commercial software vendors, the Open Source software market remains small. An IDC study is forecasting that the standalone open source software (OSS) is poised to grow from $1.8 billion in 2006 to $5.8 billion in 2011,…

Web 2.0: Apollo Lands among the new RIA Landscape

By Dick Weisinger

Adobe’s “Apollo is a cross-OS runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, TML, AJAX) to build and deploy desktop Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s)”.  That’s how Adobe describes their new development platform. Over just the…