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Presto 2.5 includes over 60 features and enhancements specifically for the mashup developers community. The Presto Connectors for VBA and C# allow any Microsoft .NET developer to integrate mashups into Microsoft Excel or Visual Basic applications. The Presto Connector for ActionScript provides similar mashup integration options for Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex and Adobe Air developers. Presto 2.5 also features integrated security options that support all enterprise identity and access management systems. These solutions compliment previously-announced Presto Connectors for Oracle, HP, and Sun, proving the broadest set of enterprise mashup development choices in the industry. read more

"Zoho Creator 3.0 epitomizes our mission on the web - give our customers powerful applications that are simple to use," said Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist. "Zoho Creator is an ideal solution for people who are not developers, but who still want to create their own 'situated applications.' These small, situation-specific applications are often needed immediately, on the fly, and Zoho Creator eliminates lengthy development cycles to deliver solutions in minutes." read more

The term 'Enterprise 2.0' has become the catch-all phrase that describes the wholesale change in enterprise IT thinking. Driven by changing business needs and social factors, organisations are starting to do things differently. Speed, agility, mobility, reuse, and innovation are the transformative drivers that are forcing organisations to push aside old technologies, models, and architectures to make way for the new Web 2.0 world of service-oriented, highly-virtualised, truly-commoditised, and eventually 'utilitised' systems and solutions. Social software, collaboration, and real-time communications are pivotal parts of the 'Enterprise Web 2.0' story, and these are acting as the conduits for new cultural ideas and practices. read more

A well-known author and industry veteran, Mulholland is a recognized expert in Enterprise 2.0 technologies. He brings a level of sophistication to the overall conversation surrounding the business drivers behind enterprise mashups. He has extensive experience within emerging growth markets and lends that level of validation as an accomplished author in this space. Mulholland's experience helped him author two popular books titled "Mashup Corporations: The End of Business as Usual" and "Mesh Collaboration." read more

"Moving to OpenMake Meister 7.2 will provide the Serena Builder customers with many new features and enhancements," states Stephen King, CEO OpenMake Software. "The most important of these features include Meister's improved continuous integration server, its ability to perform build mash ups that synchronize IDE builds with the Continuous Integration builds and support for Microsoft Team Build and Visual Studio 2008."read more

I laughed when I heard Sarah Palin say in last week's debate: "...and I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also" (this is straight from the CNN transcript). I laughed because it's such overt "spin" to say you're not going to answer what the moderator wants to hear. And, incidentally, it's exactly what the moderator wants to hear.But that's beside the point. The point is that new technology companies are often put in a similar position of defending their new technology as a challenger to existing, established technology. This is certainly true in the enterprise mashup space. Since mashup adopters have started to graduate from "what-is-it-for" to "ahhh, here-is-how-I-can-use-it", we regularly have to compare and contrast mashups against existing technologies.I think the defining "AHA!" moment is when people realize that mashups aren't meant to integrate syst

Joe McKendrick recently commented in his Fast Forward blog, Mashups: So Easy a Caveman Can Write Them? He makes a good case of the continued involvement of IT despite the claims of some mashup supporters. Joe quotes Ovum analyst, Tony Baer, "...no matter how visual mashup tools are, you still... Jason Englishread more

This morning as I was reading the newswire feeds flashing across my screen, I saw one and clicked on it, "Web Experience Forum 2008 Opens in Boston." The opening paragraph of the press release continues: "Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty." which translates to "no one showed up."read more

I got an email from WebAssist yesterday saying: To better serve your needs and expand the depth of our offerings, WebAssist will be focusing efforts on the PHP platform exclusively and...

"For virtualization projects to move forward to the size and scope organizations ultimately desire, performance issues must continually be solved to provide a level of confidence that allows business critical application servers to be virtualized," said Alex Bakman, founder and CEO of VKernel. VKernel Corporation is now shipping its Capacity Analyzer 2.0 virtual appliance - available for download.read more