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Technology: Five-Year Predictions. Trends for the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner has come out with a list of five-year top-10 predictions. 80% of commerical software will have some component of Open Source SaaS will account for one third of business application dollars in 2012 Infrastructure as a Service will be

SaaS: Amazon Web Services Overtakes Amazon.com

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon.com announced yesterday that their on-demand Web Services infrastructure program is now bigger than all of Amazon.com when measured by bandwidth. And Amazon.com now is the 7th largest web site when measured by bandwidth. “Adoption of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

SaaS: Faster, Higher Quality, and, oh yeah, Cheaper

By Dick Weisinger

When people talk about SaaS, the discussion usually starts and focuses on the cost savings possible when deploying on-demand. Those cost savings come from things like reduced in-house IT hardware and support costs, no upfront hefty licensing fees, no maintenance

Open Source: Sun Shines With LAMP

By Dick Weisinger

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Php/Perl) has long been considered a basic building block of the Internet. Last week Sun bought a piece of the LAMP with their agreement to purchase MySQL for $1 billion. MySQL CEO Marten Mickos along

SaaS: Salesforce Poised to Fall or to Break Away?

By Dick Weisinger

Salesforce.com closed out 2007 with an impressive number: more than 1,000,000 active users. Salesforce stock is up 56 percent over a year ago and the company expects to exceed $1 billion in revenues in FY09. The SaaS market continues its