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Technology: Off-Shore becomes Next-Door

By Dick Weisinger

Continued limits on the high demand for skilled foreign workers in the US and the continued love-hate relationship that companies in the US feel towards distant low-cost off-shore outsource companies are driving a new trend: Next-Door outsourcing. Oursource companies are…

Technology: Gartner's List of Ten

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner has come out with their list of top 10 compelling and strategic technologies. I’m disappointed that the list this year doesn’t have as many ECM-centric items as last year’s BPM, “Enterprise Information Management”, and “Information Access”. 2005 2006 2007…

Patents: US Patents Finally Become Harder to Get

By Dick Weisinger

A court ruling in early October suggests that the pendulum has finally begun to swing backwards away from leniency in the granting of patents. “Business-method” and abstract mentally-derived patents may become much harder to obtain. That could be good news…

Sun: Sun Reaches out to the BRIC Billions

By Dick Weisinger

They are only four counties: Brazil, Russia, India and China, the so-called BRIC countries. Today their economies still are fairly small compared to the US, Europe and Japan. IDC estimates the total global IT market to be $1.16trn compared to…

SaaS: Traditional Software Succeeds on In Bubble Economies

By Dick Weisinger

Phil Wainewright wrote a provocative blog recently where he states that the economics behind the traditional software model are fundamentally flawed. Wainewright quotes an interview with Steve Singh, president of Concur, a software vendor that successfully transformed itself from an…