IBM, Microsoft, SAP Lag Behind on Web 2.0
November 15, 2007 – 9:06 pmIBM, Microsoft and SAP are taking a charge at the business Web 2.0 market, but the big vendors still lag behind smaller rivals who have developed far more innovative technology with quicker release cycles, according to a Forrester analyst.
“Right now I’m seeing a clear preference toward smaller vendors,” says Rob Koplowitz, an analyst at Forrester. “Generally speaking the big vendors are playing catch up and the big vendors have a deployment model that is not very attractive.”
Koplowitz, who is performing a comprehensive analysis of the market for blog, wiki and content collaboration tools, issued research last month examining IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle and BEA Systems. His next Enterprise 2.0 report will tackle the smaller players such as Socialtext, Jive, Awareness, Six Apart and Near-Time.
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