Catching Up and Web 2.0

Here are links to my last two posts on Collaboration Loop:

• Microsoft, IBM Lotus: Operating Systems for Collaboration?
• Another Look at Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

Speaking of Web 2.0, there is a must read article on Reg Developer on Web 2.0 written by Bill Thompson.  Thompson blasts Web 2.0 as an over-hyped pretty face on the traditional application infrastructure, rather than a whole new way of computing.  Thompson instead argues that the vision for Web 2.0 should be focused on transcending traditional web applications "to achieve real distributed processing over a managed, trustworthy network then the possibilities truly are remarkable."

As I noted in my post on Collaboration Loop, the Web 2.0 vision of a Utopian hegemony of inter-woven trusted computers doesn't fit in with how corporations view IT, nor does it meet the need to meet regulatory and compliance requirements.  That being said, there are opportunities to embed Web 2.0 elements (such as end-user driven applications based on social networking concepts) into the enterprise application infrastructure, but I don't think we'll see the day anytime soon where enterprises are putting their data on applications that they can't control.