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Cloud Computing: Next Buzz for On-Demand is AppStores

By Dick Weisinger

The success of the Apple AppStore — One Billion Apps sold to a base of 21 million iPhone users — has got people thinking about how to create an AppStore of their own.  At recent conferences of Interop and the…

ECM: Email Management Still a Top Headache for Many IT Shops

By Dick Weisinger

80 percent of office workers spend more than an hour in dealing with their emails everyday, and nearly 40 percent of people are spending 2 or more hours on email.  These are the results of a survey conducted by AIIM…

SOA: 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed?

By Dick Weisinger

While not all the press about SOA has been positive this year, a new survey by Forrester Research of 2227 IT executive decision-makers finds that only one percent of them reported a negative experience with  SOA.  Such a high level…

ECM: Is Bigger Better

By Dick Weisinger

Another mammoth ECM acquisition has recently been announced: OpenText is to buy Vignette.  This follows the trend in the last few years of acquisitions like IBM and FileNet, EMC and Documentum, Oracle and Stellent, Autonomy and Interwoven. The latest OpenText…

Open Source: One Quarter of New Software Purchases is Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

CIOs spent 24 percent of their software purchase dollars on Open Source software in 2008, that is up from just 10 percent in 2007.  And as a result, Open Source software vendors like Red Hat are experiencing growth that is…