I Guess We’re Legitimate Now
According to this blog post by Damien Mulley, IBM announced on Friday that “they’re going all Web 2.0 and social with their Enterprise offerings. Blogs, wikis, collaboration spaces for staff and customers, social bookmarking (called dogears) and a few more bits and pieces. They’ll also be releasing mash-up software for Enterprises.”
And later, “And now for the mashups: IBM is previewing an Info 2.0 suite of integrated products that enables organisations to easily catalogue, combine, transform and remix any type of data and content by drawing on the industry’s widest variety of enterprise data sources and a vast array of Web data and content.”
Do you think IBM’s version will be as free as the stuff the rest of us work with? Or will they use information security to add a few zeros to this?
June 26th, 2007 at 4:36 am
Hi Tom,
I work for the Information Management Group in the CTO Office - thanks for picking up on Info 2.0 - we just did a “soft-launch” of it last week, and the products are still in beta (or, almost beta) so I appreciate the visibility!
I honestly don’t know what the charge, if any, there will be around Info 2.0. I haven’t been directly involved in any discussions about this to date, and from what I know it’s something that we’re still sorting out.
As the technical community liaison for the CTO Office, I’d LOVE to see Info 2.0 as free for the community. Looking at past IBM history I would guess that you’re right, there might be some sort of supported vs. unsupported version, but right now I’m just not sure. Either way, I’m hoping there aren’t too many zeros tacked onto the price tag if there are.
If you’d like to check out more about Info 2.0, start RSS’ing my blog: www.jroller.com/page/cooney. I have some good stuff posted now about our Info 2.0 direction, products to be released, etc, and will be posting more as we roll out.
thanks,
Lauren