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Structured Data: Microsoft's SQL Server is still on Top

By Dick Weisinger

When it comes to revenue, Oracle is the number one relational database. Gartner reported the following numbers for Oracle in 2006: Has 47.1 percent share (up from 46.8 percent in 2005) growing at 14.9 percent Is growing faster than the

Data Archival: Unlocking Data in Old File Formats

By Dick Weisinger

New technologies have greatly simplified the process of creating and publishing information, but many worry that today’s data being archived electronically is in danger of no longer being viewable as rapid cycles of technology change quickly obsolete the software and

ECM: Government Challenged by Massive Growth in Data

By Dick Weisinger

Think your corporate content management requirements are daunting? Think about the government. Tax returns, email, court records, legislation, correspondence, military records… Agency after agency, at all levels of government, are cranking out incredible amounts of unstructured data. And it is

Open Source: Commercialization of Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Companies like MySQL, RedHat, and SugarCRM have shown that successful business models can be built around Open Source.  Their success has convinced other companies like Sun, IBM, and even Oracle, Adobe and Microsoft to participate in the Open Source model.  While

ECM: Creating an Active Archive

By Dick Weisinger

Active archiving is the process of tagging and moving infrequently used data from high-performance active storage to more cost-effective storage.  The term Active Archiving is most often applied to structured data stored in a relational database but it can also