Although I’m trying hard not to use the term Web 2.0 anymore (see: http://www.ask500people.com/questions/do-you-think-people-should-still-be-using-the-term-web-20), a study conducted recently delivers an outcome forcing me to do so. Just so everybody knows what is meant.
A study by BEA in 11 European countries shows that: “55 per cent of organisations view SOA at the best way to support the use of social networking and Web 2.0 development techniques in their IT infrastructure.” If you look at the previous post, you’ll see that is what we have tried to substantiate there.
“SOA is about helping to increase business competitive advantage by enabling IT to deliver value faster through a more agile infrastructure. Enterprise social computing is about empowering end-users to become more productive and agile in carrying out daily activities,” said Martin Percival, BEA senior technology evangelist for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.” Visit his blog here: http://dev2dev.bea.com/cs/user/blog?file=/blog/mpercival/archive/2007/10/european_busine.html
The European Business Innovation Survey sponsored by software vendor BEA also found that web services is the most popular web technology that organisations will use in the next 12 months as part of their Web 2.0 strategy (cited by 57 per cent of respondents). Collaboration technologies were next most popular for 32 per cent, followed by blogs (27 per cent).
Joe McKendrick summarizes in his blog on ZDNet the developments in the following categories:
- Collaboration
- Mashups
- SaaS (Software as a Service)
See: http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=976
These categories make a nice start for Web Oriented Architecture categories, I would say.
Hopefully, in due time the Web 2.0 phrase will be used to refer to the period that’s just behind us, and “Web Oriented Architecture” will become the lasting expression… as promoted by this blog.
The press release on the BEA site: http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=pr01863.htm&FP=/content/news_events/press_releases/2007
