Everybody is wrong about Enterprise Mashups
by naisan on May.13, 2008, under Uncategorized
There’s lots of buzz in the blogosphere about Enterprise Mashups and Mashups in general: Raf Cammarano, ReadWriteWeb, Forrester, etc. But they all have it wrong — well — kind of.
Mashups are simple, really – here are three points that explain the whole phenomena from start to finish:
1) In music mashups took off when the technology to mix together many songs became readily available. The songs have been available for a long time.
2) The Web takes a previously hidden “tier” of applications (the middle tier) and makes it available to everybody all the time!
3) Tools have now appeared to let ordinary people mash together websites using the accessible middle tier.
Enterprise mashups are even simpler: SOA means that most applications are also making their previously convoluted APIs easier to use, and tools are being built, like Serena’s Mashup Composer, to allow business users to “mash” these applications.
So that’s it: open APIs + mashing platforms = mashups.
Not so complex – huh?
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