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Articles by Robert Epstein

What came first: the technology or the process?

  • Opinion
  • Date: 15 October 2008
Has the increasing sophistication of technology helped to evolve business processes or have evolving business processes driven the pace of technology change?

How to minimise risk of customer data loss and fraud

  • Opinion
  • Date: 14 July 2008
UK businesses must change their attitude to customer data protection or they risk misuse and potential loss of this information.

Free cost per transaction calculator

  • Opinion
  • Date: 28 July 2008
The impact of the credit crunch has meant small and medium-sized companies have fewer resources to spend on evaluating the efficiency of their business…

Technology in tough times: preparing for economic downturn

  • Opinion
  • Date: 28 July 2008
Microsoft research has shown that 76% of business owners have made no provision for an economic downturn, and 86% have not sought any advice on how to prepare for the worst

Open source in technology merger and acquisitions

  • News
  • Date: 18 July 2008
Open source technology is simply an evolved class of licensing under which wider, more permissive rights are given to users. Crucially, access to source code is given enabling user support and development of the code. While the open source philosophy originated in California, with frankly a long-haired approach, the model is now effectively mainstream and competes with conventional closed source licensing models (the 2008 Sun/MySQL and Symbian deals demonstrate the popularity of open source).
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