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Enterprise Data: Vendors move in lock-step

By Dick Weisinger

IDC announced marketshare figures for major database companies based on data for 2007. Vendors’ slices of the market haven’t budged a whole lot from 2006. IDC reports that the overall Database market grew to $18.6 billion in 2007, 12.1% higher…

Technology: Status Quo Spoilers

By Dick Weisinger

Predictions flooded from Gartner’s recent ITExpo, maybe not too surprising: – Microsoft Vista is collapsing under it’s own weight of complexity and moving parts – Google’s aim at the enterprise is unconventional, like a “fog rolling in”, capturing market share…

Open Source: Patent Based Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

A small company called International Characters has enlisted the help of Open Source lawyers to create a new twist to the Open Source model. Patents and Open Source are frequently thought of as opposites, but International Characters is trying to…

Web2.0: Enterprise 2.0 Grows On

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise 2.0, the business version of Web 2.0, is set to grow to $4.3 billion by 2013 reports Forrester Research. The technologies within the relatively new sector are social networking/collaboration tools, RSS and mashups. In 2008, companies with 1000 or…

Enterprise Software: Forrester Deals Out Three Scenarios

By Dick Weisinger

Forrester Research has taken a look at the future, 10 years from now, and come up with three possible scenarios for how the world of Enterprise Software might evolve. Forrester nicknamed the scenarios after poker hands. The Three Kings. In…