New Golden Age for Outside-the-Box Startups?

jg21 writes "A brief essay on the SOA Web Services Journal claims there is a new phenomenon among startups, the 'momentary enterprise'. The article defines the term as a business that 'takes advantage of an opportunity that may only exist for months'. The piece claims that we're entering a golden age of technologies that can be glued together to create new types of information that fill an identifiable need. On example given is VOware like Groove, which is likened to IM on steroids. From the article: 'The ingredients for another wave of new companies are all around us - pervasively all around us. They include new wireless extensions of the wired network and the further exportation of technologies such as XML.' Intriguingly optimistic."

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Didnt we have this already?

[daxomatic]

Everything your team needs for sharing documents blah blah Its called exchange?

Blah blah blah corporatespeak blah blah blah

[Cyburbia]

"Such commodities will be expertly and automatically leveraged by super-deep, business-to-business automation, and new enterprises will start up by focusing their energy on differentiating their value in the marketplace rather than creating and supporting all of the associated accoutrements."

Can we have a translation to English, please?

Grand

[grasshoppa]

So we're going to have more people getting VC for ideas that won't last more than a few months.

Well, I guess that's an improvement over the last bubble: Those guys didn't have a plan beyond getting the VC.

Y'know...

[Otter]

I'm not one of the people always yelling that stories here are paid ads: "Slashvertisement! Astroturfer! Roland Picqupiale!!!!"

But I'm thinking Zonk got taken on this one. That VOware link is informative, why?