Web 2.0 Goes To Work

An anonymous reader writes "News.com is reporting on analyst predictions that Web 2.0 has begun meeting up with enterprise software in the business world." From the article: "Buttoned-down IBM, which mainly sells to businesses, on Wednesday detailed QEDwiki, for example. The project is meant to let people assemble Web applications using wikis, really simple syndication (RSS) and simple Web scripting. Similarly, the grassroots direct-marketing techniques of the consumer world are starting to be used to tout enterprise software, analysts said. The enterprise software market, once the hotbed of innovation, is starting to catch up to the consumer Web, where people are becoming used to melding data from their desktop with services online. It's a shift that could shake up the traditional enterprise-software model, experts predicted. "

Comments

Control changes to the User

[Anonymous Coward]

Remember when PCs first showed up in enterprises, being carried in secretly because enterprises had explicit rules that those "toys" were not to be brought in?

People did anyway, because of tools like Visicalc that gave unprecedented power to the individual, compared to the then-prevalent mainframe where the "gods of IT" had the power only.

Web 2.0 is the equivalent for Network Computing.

Clarification for the stupid, please...

[StankyG]

"...analyst predictions that Web 2.0 has begun meeting up with enterprise software" So has Web 2.0 begun meeting up or are analysts just predicting it has begun meeting up? And what kind of technology writer uses phrases like "meeting up" instead of something like: "matrix frictionless markets" "mesh granular solutions" "transform interactive models"