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SaaS: On-Demand Content Management

By Dick Weisinger

On-Demand Content Management is gaining momentum.  At the end of March Salesforce.com purchased Koral, a nine-person content collaboration company.  Based on that acquisition, last week Salesforce announced their intention to introduce two new products that focus on the management of unstructured data called Apex…

Enterprise Search: An Uphill Battle for Google?

By Dick Weisinger

Google dominates Internet search and every month the lead seems to only grow.  Last week Hitwise reported that Google’s market share grew to 64 percent — up 6 percentage points from last year, while Yahoo slipped slightly to 21.3 percent and…

SOA: Oracle's Project X — Will it LeapFrog Project Fusion?

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle has been on an architecture path called Fusion for some time.  Part of Fusion’s goal is to be able to bring together some of the very many different applications and technologies that Oracle has been acquiring (28 new suites…

By Dick Weisinger

Market share is typically measured market share in terms of new license revenue and sometimes includes revenues from updates, subscriptions, hosting, technical support and maintenance.  In the rankings, where does that leave Open Source database products like MySQL?  Nowhere. Gartner…

SOA: Half of Enterprise Developers to be using SOA in Two Years

By Dick Weisinger

Evan Data sees rapid uptake of SOA technologies over the next two years.  Currently about one quarter of enterprise-level developers are already using SOA techniques in their development, but that number is poised to grow another 28 percent over the…