A Week in a Blink

It is never boring to work at a software company in an exploding software category. But this week the usual frenetic pace of the enterprise mashup market moved up an order of magnitude. If you blinked, you might have missed something juicy.

InfoWorld started the frenzy by publishing ‘Enterprise mashups gain traction at last’, an interview with John Crupi, JackBe’s CTO ‘Tech Titan’. And just yesterday, InfoWorld doubled down on enterprise mashups with a short op-ed piece from the intrepid David Linthicum, ‘JackBe is practicing safe mashups’. (You gotta love the title of this one.)

Anthony Bradley and David Gootzit at Gartner announced 3 new papers related to enterprise mashups: ‘Building a Business Case for Enterprise Mashups: A Gartner Framework’, ‘The Five Core Principles of Enterprise Mashups’ and an almost-published ‘A Gartner Reference Architecture for Enterprise Mashups’. (We’ll definitely be talking about these reports a lot more in future blogs.) And Anthony followed up his 3 publications with a detailed blog, ‘You Can’t Build a Business Case for Enterprise Mashups’.

And there’s more. Through a day-long series of Twitter tweets, the SD Times announced the winners of their annual ‘SD Times 100’ Award. The winners in their ‘Mashup’ category included JackBe, Serena and, a bit surprisingly, Tibco. We’re hoping the editors of the SD Times give us a bit of insight into the inclusion of Tibco when they publish the formal awards article on June 15.

Finally, I am happy to say that JackBe made it’s contribution to the week's enterprise mashup maelstrom. First, we released the Spring 2009 edition of our multi-award-winning enterprise mashup platform, Presto 2.7. And we simultaneously announced the Share Your Mashup Macro Contest.  You can grab the free Developer Edition of Presto 2.7 and participate in the Mashup Macro Contest on our Mashup Developer Community.

What more could ya want in just 4 days? After all this, I can’t wait to see what next week is gonna be like. Don’t blink.