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SaaS: Would a Recession Bring Good Times or Bad?

By Dick Weisinger

Only last week ZDNet bloggers Farber and Dignan described SaaS as a recession-proof industry, quoting Jeff Kaplan of ThinkStrategies as saying that during a recession “many companies could hold back on their capital investments to mitigate their risks. The ability…

Web2.0: Only Getting Stronger in 2008

By Dick Weisinger

Four years ago at the O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference the term ‘Web 2.0’ was born. The term refers to the collaborative nature of newer web-based technologies, and includes things like social networking, RSS, wikis, blogs and folksonomies. 2007 saw…

Technology: OS Rules Java Application Servers

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source Java Application Servers are dominating the market for Java Application Servers. While proprietary vendors like IBM, Oracle and BEA have wide acceptance, Open Source projects like Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Sun Java Enterprise System and Glassfish make up a…

SOA: Business Process Blueprints

By Dick Weisinger

To add emphasis to the idea that SOA is an architectural approach and not a technical specification, the OASIS group has started a Technical Committee towards creating SOA solution blueprints. An SOA blueprint is a sort of recipe that lays…

Innovation: More to Google than Secret Sauce

By Dick Weisinger

People often refer to the Google Search Algorithm as the ‘special sauce’ that has given them an edge in the Internet Search Space. But there’s more to Google’s success than the sauce. Google lives by nine pillars of innovation: Ideas…