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Technology: Yahoo! + Microsoft = MicroHoo!?

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft has “pulled an Oracle”. In a surprise move, Microsoft made a $45 billion hostile takeover bid for Yahoo!. Microsoft is threatening a “sledgehammer tactic” of ousting most boardroom members within six weeks unless Yahoo! accepts the offer. The move…

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…

SOA: Service Oriented Storage

By Dick Weisinger

Services Oriented Architecture and storage technologies are converging into something that people are beginning to dub Services Oriented Storage (SOS), one component of a Service Oriented Infrastructure. A proliferation of proprietary technology storage solutions in the marketplace is confusing customers.…

Technology: Computing Clouds are Gathering

By Dick Weisinger

Since late 2007 Cloud Computing has taken off as technology and a new category buzzword. Wikipedia added a definition for Cloud Computing in September 2007. The wikipedia definition is: Cloud computing is a computing paradigm shift where computing is moved…

Oracle: Continued Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle continues to amaze as another quarter passes with revenues again far exceeding analyst predictions. Oracle revenue shot was up 28 per cent to $5.31bn, from $4.16bn in Q2 2006 while global sales of Oracle software licences increased 38 per…