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Technology: Middleware market leaders

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner released their numbers about the top application and middleware software (AIM) vendors last week. Based on their findings, they rank IBM as number one in marketshare, standing somewhere at around 29 percent, nearly three times any of the competitors.

Oracle: Targeting Enterprise 2.0

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle has been a laggard when it comes to on-Demand and Web 2.0, but that may be changing. In mid May Oracle announced they plan to open a 200,000 square foot $285 million dollar data center in West Jordan, Utah.

Oracle: Strong Growth, But Analysts Not Satistifed

By Dick Weisinger

Third quarter results for Oracle were just announced. But Oracle failed to impress analysts. Many had expected to see stronger growth by Oracle in their applications business. Oracle reported 7 percent growth to $451 million for the quarter, compared to

Oracle: A Clean Sweep Across RDBMS's

By Dick Weisinger

1470 developers and IT managers at the end of 2007 voted Oracle the best database across 13 different categories. Evans Data said that in 23 years of doing this survey never has one vendor been voted number one in all

SaaS: Is Multi-tenancy Really an Advantage in On-Demand?

By Dick Weisinger

Salesforce.com, Microsoft and others are promoting SaaS multi-tenancy as a competitive advantage for their on-line offerings. Multi-tenancy means that a single software instance is used by and supports multiple organizations. How can this feature make companies more competitive? The advantage