May 3, 2010
So, here we are in 2010 (if you want to know where we've been since 1965, take a look at my last blog post). Between the Open Source Software (OSS) movement and The Cloud, businesses are increasingly asking why they should pay for restrictive software licenses and the dedicated hardware to run it on when there are technologies and business models which can meet 80% or more of their business’ needs for a fraction of the dollar cost and implementation/maintenance effort.
April 16, 2010
For at least the last 25 years or so, certainly ever since researchers Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy coined the term “business data warehouse”, various vendors and technologies have been carving up and attempting to lay exclusive claim to overlapping slices of the data warehouse ecosystem - the sum total of the tools and methods required to support a data warehouse from source systems to end-users. Y
December 4, 2009
Hewlett-Packard put together a brief white paper in February of this year laying out their view of Business Intelligence (BI) for 2009 (and beyond).
December 3, 2009
Sometimes vendors do get it (mostly) right. Hewlett-Packard put together a brief white paper in February of this year laying out their view of Business Intelligence (BI) for 2009 (and beyond).
November 28, 2009
Some Technologies Coming Down the Pike In the most recent Top500 List of Fastest Supercomputers a Cray XT5 Supercomputer known as Jaguar achieved
November 23, 2009
Well, now we have a healthcare bill in the House of Representatives and another one in the Senate. All of the political maneuvering, monetary machinations and lobbying efforts that we have seen to date has been in preparation for this penultimate showdown – the fight before the final fight. In my space here, I don’t want to wade into or debate the merits or demerits of policy or try to predict the future.
November 5, 2009
Hewlett-Packard put together a brief white paper in February of this year laying out their view of Business Intelligence (BI) for 2009 (and beyond).
November 5, 2009
Hewlett-Packard put together a brief white paper in February of this year laying out their view of Business Intelligence (BI) for 2009 (and beyond).
October 1, 2009
Why We Pay for the Enterprise Software Model In my last post, I made the bold assertion that the Enterprise Software Model (ESM) would be
September 25, 2009
FOSS, COSS and HOSS v. The Enterprise Software Model Before you write me off as just another Open-Source Zealot, hear me out. 2009 will be
