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The Myths of Open Source Software
In our line of business, document formats like PDF, DOCX, TIFF, and JPEG are critical to our customers. Often customers, even engineers, don’t appreciate the amount of effort that these highly complex documents and images require to be manipulated and rendered for display and other functions....
Can I Get Fries with That?
It happens to all of us... You cook a steak and someone wants it cooked more. You plant a tree and your wife wants it on the other side of the yard. You carefully plan, design and create a beautiful document viewer but the customer wants the backend to run on Jboss rather than Websphere. You...
You Can’t Take Flight Until You Get the Pilot Right
Having been in the software industry for so many years, I’ve seen a lot of good ways to develop or integrate software applications. I’ve also seen some that are not so good. Everyone has heard of vaporware and knows that at some point you have to cut the cord on promises. However, what if...
Reflections on Why We Build our Products Ourselves
Many of us have heard the following sales pitch many times over our careers: We’ve got a product that’s carefully crafted with the “best of breed” components and tuned for optimum performance and quality as a turnkey solution. Oh, and it is also backed by our Fortune 500 company resources. Hard...
15 Ways to Keep Your Programs Protected & Your Customer’s Data Secure
Most modern corporate headquarters have fairly elaborate security methods, which include cameras, electronic locks, sign-ins, guarded server rooms, and background checks for employees. But when dealing with non-Fortune 2000 companies (where most innovative software comes from), should you take...
When a Large Company Buys a Small Company
Competitive Considerations on Technology Acquisition As part of a small company in the large market of Content Management, I have been an observer to many interesting changes in the past few years. We play in the same space as IBM, EMC, OpenText, Oracle, HP, Onbase and Lexmark. These giant (or...
What to Look For in an HTML5 Viewer (Part 3)
Snowbound is running a three-part blog series on the end of applets and what the future holds for web applications. Check back on and Friday for the final installment: Part 1 (Monday): The Clock is Ticking to Replace Your Java Applet Part 2 (Wednesday): Why Browser Plug-Ins are Being Phased Out...
The Clock is Ticking to Replace Your Java Applet (Part 1)
Snowbound is running a three-part blog series on the end of applets and what the future holds for web applications. Check back on Wednesday and Friday for the other installments: Part 1 (Monday): The Clock is Ticking to Replace Your Java Applet Part 2 (Wednesday): Why Browser Plug-Ins are Being...
Why My Car Dealer Needs an HTML5 Viewer
Yesterday, I brought my car to my shiny, huge car dealership. Brand new cars everywhere. The dealership is so busy they have over 100 loaners for their customers. However, what they don’t have is a viewing system for the millions of paper pages of car service record documents they store. With the...
Chrome is Paving the Way for HTML5 Viewing
As of September 2015, most people are not able to run Java client software (including applets) in the most popular browser in the USA today. If you’re not up to date on browser popularity, I’m talking about Chrome, which has achieved a market share of 40%-60%, depending on the source. The mobile...
Are Your Suppliers the Weakest Link in Your Emergency Prep?
Let me paint a scenario of a typical company with hundreds or thousands of users handling documents in their everyday work processes. You can safely presume downtime is one of their most critical concerns and one that must be avoided at almost all costs. Let’s also assume that the company...
The Danger of Undocumented Features
What do most people do when they are working on their computer and see a “Format Not Allowed” dialog box? Or how about a “File Not Supported” error? Most of us would assume the application isn’t built to handle whatever we are trying to do and find another approach. But that’s not everyone. Some...