GIOs look beyond Web 2.0

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"Web 2.0 is a thing of the past." That was the judgment of Maria Pardee, president of global integration for BT Design, the IT design and delivery arm of British Telecommunications (BT), speaking at the fifth annual Massachusetts Institute of Technology CIO Symposium last week. She wasn't just being provocative: Her colleagues on the panel pretty much agreed with her."The future is about how to exchange data, and have trusted relationships, with people outside the enterprise,"she said. The MIT panel was organized to wrestle with the emergence of a basket of very diverse technologies, all grouped under the "Web 2.0" label, and their corporate potential. The technologies range from Web services and standards such as XML, and service-oriented architectures (SOA),to wikis and RSS feeds, to new forms of collaboration and social networking, and even to new infrastructures to support all this, such as cloud com- puting and virtualization.One analyst firm estimated these technologies will be a $4.6 billion market in 2013. For Pardee and her colleagues on the panel, many of these technologies have already become an essential part of the corporate IT landscape.