The Word is Out on Enterprise 2.0

I came across a great posting on Read/WriteWeb blog on Big Vendors Scrap Enterprise 2.0 Supremacy, it’s an analysis on a Forrester report, The Big Vendors Converge On Enterprise Web 2.0, recently released. In this blog posting, it looks at the report and highlights specific details, who the major vendors are, the usual suspect abound, as well as highlight one company as missing, Google. I thought that was interesting point, my own opinion that while Google has made inroads in the business app front, I think there’s a great deal of time before we see a specific strategy that would directly compete with the current leaders.

One point it touches on briefly, but what mentioned directly in a comment left on the blog, is what’s happening outside of these large vendors. Read/Write Web suggests that the large businesses are more likely to purchases smaller developers with emerging technologies as a compliment to their overall platform:

However Forrester points out what many of us have been saying for a while: that the big vendors will "acquire best-of-breed vendors to augment, extend, and cover gaps in their own enterprise Web 2.0 portfolios."

Which isn’t surprising, considering the time and effort to develop critical applications, it can be far more profitable to build on top of a core suite of business apps then attempt to develop a stand-alone solution and compete with some of the largest businesses in the world. Of course considering the success of Google, one has to wonder what impact it may one day have.