By Dick Weisinger, on September 2nd, 2010
Open Source has matured to the point where it is now used to some extent in every company. 98 percent of respondents to a survey said that their organizations make use of Open Source in some way. The people answering the survey were IT professionals in areas like network operations, server management and engineering. Many [...]
By Dick Weisinger, on September 1st, 2010
Open Source software pervades almost every segment of technology. In some areas Open Source even has even become the leader. For example, Linux versus UNIX, or Alfresco versus traditional ECM vendors. Open Source Business Intelligence software is one area where there is a significant amount of work being done, but for now, according to a [...]
By Dick Weisinger, on August 31st, 2010
Prineville, Oregon; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Quincy, Washington; The Dalles, Oregon; Mahwah, New Jersey. Are these the cities that will drive future US economic growth? These are becoming hubs of growth around cloud computing and big data research. While the industrial age in the US was driven by cities like Philadelphia, Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, these [...]