Billy Newport would like Pipes that work in the enterprise. This is interesting, as we have moved from Web 2.0 meaning “that kewl cmpny 2.0 that runs on Rails”, and a lot of the technology is being seriously looked at inside launch enterprises.
As this happens, we find that some of the needs of the enterprise can be slightly different that those of the public Web.
I was just talking to someone from a large financial company, and they are wrestling with how to do composite applications within their intranet. Enterprise Mashups. They were running into issues around SSO and other problems that simple portals do not solve for them.
I almost froze when I heard “we are looking for J2EE for Ajax apps”. He didn’t mean JEE in the way we think of it (they are happy Spring users btw), but he did want some infrastructure pieces to enable the sort of mashups to be built in his large organization. There can be complicated rules for which services you can talk too, and the data that comes back from them depends on your role, and much much more.
Is anyone out there helping enterprises join the mashup world? I think they could make some money.
May 18th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
thanks for sharing!