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I read a post on gantthead about the capabilities of IBM Web 2.0 technology.  Web 2.0 is a great evolving opportunity, and is a natural evolution of the web, and the post espouses IBM’s implementation, infrastructure, and tools to support that.  

Let’s not lose site of the fact that technology is not really the driver here!  The driver is the need to [tag]collaborate[/tag] more freely, to find information more easily, to develop and build trust online by providing people-driven credibility, and to connect with networks of like-minded people.  The danger here is moving from [tag]business-driven[/tag] to [tag]technology-driven[/tag].

I have spent many years using Lotus and IBM technology and love it.  However, the drivers of Web 2.0 are truly the people, and not the platform.  I am not sure how vendors like IBM will make out on this one.  I think Lotus Notes paved the way for much of this and was extermely successful.  But the web’s openness came at odds with a platform-specific solution.  It is hard to imagine anyone’s solution for this becoming ubiquitous, except in certain very specific environments.
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