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Open Source: Governments Enlist in a Big Way

By Dick Weisinger

Fifty-five percent of US government agencies are involved in Open Source implementations, according to a survey of 218 top IT decision makers across various US government agencies.  And among these implementations more than 97 percent are very positive about the…

Sarbanes-Oxley: CEOs Move On

By Dick Weisinger

After five years of pain coming to grips with the Sarbanes-Oxley regulations, companies are beginning to be accustomed to the new landscape. In a recent survey by Eversheds LLP only three percent of top executives had Sarbanes-Oxley as their top…

Storage: Terabytes on Pinheads

By Dick Weisinger

Since 1965, transistors have relentlessly halved in size every twenty-four months according to Moore’s law. Storage bits have kept pace, shrinking in size at a phenomenal rate. (Actually the analog of Moore’s Law for Storage devices is called Kryder’s law…

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…

SOA and BPM: Technology Blends to Fuel Next-Generation Applications

By Dick Weisinger

Everyone is suddenly talking BPM and SOA. In September Oracle beefed up its Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite with SOA. Microsoft announced SOA plans with a code-named product called ‘Oslo’ and intends to meld SOA and BPM capabilities into its…