Company and Community

In my last blog I talked about how Disaster Recovery (DR) crosses all vertical markets and is important no matter what your company does.  In this blog I will “cut the...

It is almost half-way through the "Carnival" season in New Orleans, Louisiana - the traditional pre-lenten party that runs up until Fat Tuesday (February 24th for those without a calendar handy). Sorry if I've got New Orleans on the brain lately, but it is because we have already...

The SaaS approach to deploying software solutions is emerging and evolving. As customers continue to expand their acceptance of SaaS, as existing software vendors seek to take advantage of this model and as more new SaaS vendors emerge, it...

Most of the time, when we think of Software as a Service (SaaS), we focus on the first “S”, or the one that addresses the Software side of things.  But I think that the second “S” or the one that is about Service is the one that needs to be thought of a little more, as I believe it...

Let's talk about Disaster Recovery (DR) for a moment. I was talking with a customer about how he's managing his business in these tight times. He said that down-time cost the business about $100,000 US per...

I recently read Daryl Plummer’s (Gartner Group) blog and I have to agree, but also disagree with what he said.  I agree that it is not an easy thing to transition from being a...

OpenEdge 10.2A is scheduled to be available soon.  OpenEdge is the only platform that is optimized for the building of Service-Oriented Business Applications.  It differentiates from other offerings in the market because:

• Its purpose to simplify building your data- and...

Some replies and comments to my previous blog RIA Rich Clients mainstream in 2-5 years? Progress customers have them since the year 2000! made it clear that the concept of Rich Internet Applications is still...

In the recent research note “Hype Cycle for Web and User Interaction Technologies, 2008”¹, published 7 July 2008 (Gartner document ID Number: G00159447),  Gartner provides a comprehensive analysis of user interface technologies for the Web throughout the Hype Cycle² stages: from Technology...