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Bruce,The desire to address the very pain you ment...

2007-09-06T13:02:00.000-05:00

Bruce,
The desire to address the very pain you mention is one of the key drivers for our having built Presto, our Enterprise Mashup Platform, in the way we have...Not only does Presto make it easy to consume SOA-enabled infrastructure, but we can consume any artifact of high-business value, since as you point out, lots of valuable data may not be service enabled.

Additionally, Data in Presto are mashable *across* data source types, so Presto can consume and mashup data from WSDL-described SOAP and XML-based services, as well as data directly from an Oracle DB, a REST-based service that returns JSON, a Java POJO, a .Net web service, an RSS feed, a spreadsheet, email, etc.

Subsequently, these mashups are available via our open, lightweight API to any client application, be it Ajax (using JackBe's powerful frameworks and tools), or Flash/Flex, or Silverlight, or [insertFavoritePresentationTechnologyHere]

Thanks for your comment.

Dan I am worried that a growing number of companie...

2007-09-05T10:42:00.000-05:00

Dan I am worried that a growing number of companies are growing weary with the massive and expanding complexity that is their IT.

Surprisingly many of the companies we build solutions for don't have a very robust enterprise infrastructure. Even if they have put in the money to build up some elements of it, a large portion of important data is not (and may never be) connected in ways that make it meaningful / useful to mash up type applications.

There has to be a smaller, faster, lighter way to just grab the data you need for the mash up, and get it into a form that you can make use of it though AJAX or Flash.

Chris,Agreed...the key is that this emerging platf...

2007-09-03T15:20:00.000-05:00

Chris,
Agreed...the key is that this emerging platform must provide the sort of ad-hoc, situational application development environment that allows Enterprise mashups to be developed with enough ease to make them viable (the biz unit value prop) and in a way that embraces (not displaces) existing Enterprise infrastructure, including Security, Identity Mgmt, Policies, Services, Registries, etc. (the IT value prop).

You raise a good point. The big players like Oracl...

2007-08-30T11:35:00.000-05:00

You raise a good point. The big players like Oracle, BEA, SAP are hoping that Web 2.0 will be a feature upgrade for their existing products. All us upstart Enterprise 2.0 vendors are betting that taking advantage of these new technologies will require a whole new platform.