December 07, 2008

Mashup Myths, Blunders and a Top Ten Technology for 2009

Photo: Mashup the Enterprise cover

(cc) Mashup the Enterprise by photoAtlas.


There's a buzz about mashups again and the topic is heating up.

Analysts at Gartner Inc. included enterprise mashups in their top ten technologies list for 2009.

Here's their top 10:
  1. Virtualization
  2. Cloud Computing
  3. Servers — Beyond Blades
  4. Web-Oriented Architectures
  5. Enterprise Mashups
  6. Specialized Systems
  7. Social Software and Social Networking
  8. Unified Communications
  9. Business Intelligence
  10. Green IT


Chris Warner describes 5 mashup myths over at Fast Company to help cut through the hype:
  1. The ‘Fall for the Buzz’ Mistake
  2. The Self-Serve Mistake
  3. The SOA Mistake
  4. The Silo Mistake
  5. The ”Oops” Mistake


Looks like Zen Internet, an ISP, has bumped into a big "oops" already. They apologized for including a link in its latest newsletter to a website hosting a "find your nearest BNP member" search box. BNP stand for British National Party and the BNP membership list and personal information was leaked online two weeks ago.

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Comments:
CIO Insight has also announced their top 10 disruptive IT trends for the coming year (http://blogs.cioinsight.com/biztech30/content/future_of_it/top_10_disruptive_it_trends.html?kc=CIOMINUTE11032008CIO1)

There's some overlap between the Gartner and CIO Insight list. We can bet that no list will be dead on. The Gartner technologies have better explanations ...let's hope clarity provides more direction and becomes a better predictor than something that's much more ambiguous.
# posted by OpenID knowledgenavigator : 10:42 PM
 
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