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Open Source: Which License?

By Dick Weisinger

There’s a lot of debate about what Open Source means.  The wide variety of licenses and business models labeled as Open Source makes it hard to come up with a definition that everyone can agree on.   The sheer number of Open Source licenses

Sun Turnaround == Sun 2.0?

By Dick Weisinger

Employees at Sun are feeling good again.  “Inside the company, the energy level is dramatically different.” said Sun CFO Mike Lehman.  The turnaround is coming after five years of poor to mediocre fiscal performance at Sun. Sun’s financials from last

Open Source: Going Strong, but my Open Source Model may not be Yours

By Dick Weisinger

New reports from Evans Data and The 451 Group were issued last week about the health of the Open Source movement.  The reports show that Open Source is gaining in commercial acceptance globally.  Further, the reports find that software vendors with

Open Source/SaaS: Software Delivery Models 2.0

By Dick Weisinger

Last week Ray Lane, former Oracle President and now Open-Source proponent at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, eulogized the shrink-wrap box delivery model.  Lane said that the software business is at a “crossroads, with an economic model no longer sustainable”. Lane is

Top 10 Trends in ECM

By Dick Weisinger

Here are 10 top trends in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space: Consolidation.  IBM/Filenet, Oracle/Stellent, Open Text/Hummingbird/Red Dot, EMC/Documentum/Captiva.  I’ve written about the consolidation trends here and here and here. Compliance.  Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FDA CPR-21, SEC 17a-4, and risk compliance are examples