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Open Source: CEOs Predict Banner Year

By Dick Weisinger

Today the Open Solutions Alliance announced the results of their survey of predictions from leading Open Source company CEOs. Not too unpredictably, all CEOs are very high on the prospects for Open Source in 2008. Some of their predictions include:

SaaS: So Many Ways to Deliver IT

By Dick Weisinger

Times have changed.  Mainframes gave way to Client/Server, only to give way to the Internet.  But the delivery vehicle for IT services is being reshaped into so many different forms lately, it is hard to keep up.  The traditional software

Oracle & SaaS: Oracle's Backdoor Strategy to Conquer SaaS

By Dick Weisinger

Most analysts agree that Oracle is not on the radar as a major player in the SaaS arena. Beyond Oracle’s purchase of Siebel, Oracle’s huge portfolio is pretty void of anything else positioned as a SaaS offering. Earlier this year

SaaS: The Rise of Infrastructure Providers

By Dick Weisinger

In many ways on-Demand hosted software isn’t that much different from the previous generation of traditional on-site software.  The main difference is in the delivery mechanism.  No matter what the service, Software as a Service needs to be built on a framework that

SaaS: Ellison says 'No' to Reporters, but 'Yes' with Pocketbook

By Dick Weisinger

Headlines say that Oracle’s Larry Ellison thinks that SaaS technology isn’t viable. He says that Oracle hasn’t aggressively pursued it because the model for successfully making money with SaaS just isn’t there yet and that the large companies in their