I don't know how many lissers read reports by organisations such as Butler Group, but there have been a couple recently relevant to the thread on web 2.0 etc.
one is on SOA (which means service oriented architectures, try googling on that), another is on what they call RWA, (rich web applications, try googling on that too) and in each they refer to the other as if they should be joined at the hip, and in both they refer to web 2.0 and quite a lot else beside
but the point that caught my eye was within what is called a system (though others of course call it other things) maturity model, where they have a level 0 and at that level it means that almost knowone knows there is a problem, and at that level they have one thing, traditional semantic tools.
They don't say what they consider the traditional semantic tools to be, so I am going to challenge them and ask them. I think it will turn out that what is meant is what we learned and called cat and class, and it is hardly the case that almost no one understands the problem, all of us do; it is simply that Butler Group (and given the budgets of the organisations they have investigated and reported upon), their study base, and perhaps their customers, don't. So there might be an opportunity here if anyone has boards of management that read Butler reports. But then, optimism of the willie and pessimism of the intellect.
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