Tue, Jun 20, 2006 2:48 EDT

IBM and Web 2.0

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I don't know who the first person was to blog about Web 2.0 and the Enterprise theme, but you know it has reached an interesting inflection point when IBM embraces the concept...

In a keynote speech to leading technology executives, Rod Smith, IBM's Vice President of emerging Internet technologies, declared that the technologies underpinning blogs, wikis and innovative sites like Google Maps and Wikipedia on the Web will transform the way productivity applications are developed - in some cases in as little as five minutes - using the ever-expanding palette of Web 2.0 components available for free on the Internet.

IBM Executive Declares Web 2.0 Technology to Drive New Business Applications @ SYS-CON INDIA

Lots of hype and buzz. Interestingly, at our recent CIO Council offsite, many of the CIOs wondered aloud whether this is just another passing fad, like all of the other overhyped enterprise technology trends. Remember web services? How 2004...

I do think that there is one big difference though, between this trend and others. Like open source, this trend is starting from the bottom up.

Certainly, as a consumer, my ability to use the web to share, publish, collaborate and communicate, has almost reached that point where using it doesn't require me to have much special knowledge about technology or html, php or java. Thank goodness, because the last time I tried to code was in high school in TurboPascal.

Now imagine a world where these same consumers put on their work 'hats' and start playing with these technologies as part of their day to day job. Couple this with a huge world of very capable enterprise developers armed with these tools and CIOs attuned to the immense productivity gains that may result, and maybe you do have a trend that finally lives up to its hype.

If anything, it will be more interesting to see this evolve than CORBA...

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