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Technology: The Continuing Decline of IT's Influence

By Dick Weisinger

IT has been accused of becoming irrelevant. It’s becoming common for non-IT business units to be initiating and managing IT purchases and vendor relationships. Off-premise SaaS offerings are accelerating the phenomenon and making it ever more easier for Business to…

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…

Technology: Developers, Developers, Developers…

By Dick Weisinger

Developers. Developers. Developers. That has been Steve Ballmer’s mantra for years. He has chanted it, sung it and danced to it for years. Ballmer long ago realized that developers can make or break the success of a platform, and Microsoft’s…

Enterprise Software: Analysts Predict Enterprise Software business will Skid Lower

By Dick Weisinger

The same day that Oracle is touting itself as the world’s largest Enterprise Software company, Merrill Lynch gave the enterprise software space thumbs down. After factoring in the overall economic outlook and slow growth performance from the first quarter, Merrill…

Technology: Enterprise Software a Dying Art?

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise software doesn’t hold much attraction for today’s up-and-coming generation of technologists. The new generation is instead choosing areas like Web 2.0, biotech and ‘green’ technology. That’s the view of M. R. Rangaswami, publisher or SandHill.com. Software industry pioneers are…