Oracle Presentation Recap
So, last week Friday we took part in an Oracle User Group meeting, in which we presented our vision for the complete web platform (i.e. WebWidgetry(tm) and MashupStudio(tm)). The response was very interesting.
It became apparent to us that the canonical enterprise today is still struggling quite a bit with where to find the value in many of the "Web2.0" concepts and tools. For a lot of people, it comes down to things like governance and security. They are still not quite sure how to manage and support all these potential "custom apps" that would be a result of a world where users are also implementers. The IT department is not ready or willing to cede those responsibilities to a group of people that are not professional developers.
Not only are we faced with the challenge of finding just what problems enterprises have (in general) that a SOA based development and mashup platform can solve, but we as a community must also work diligently to shed light on the value of these concepts. We need to help them understand that it's not about managing the mashups (or custom apps) themselves, but about managing the services used to get the data and the tools used to create the mashups. The community, whether it's the group of users within the organization that find a particular mashup useful or it's the global platform community, can manage their own content as long as you provide controlled access to the data they want and the tools that make it easy. This is already the value proposition for enterprise content management systems. It just so happens that this time, the content is actually content + functionality! We know that's exciting, but now to convince the world...
-Ryan Gahl
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