Bill de hÓra on Web2.0 and deferred integration costs:
There’s a large collective bet right now that the integration costs on specialised web applications won’t be an issue a few years out. Or at least they’ll be less of an issue than building software that tries to do everything (aka “Groupware“).
On the Web we call it Mashups, it’s a catchy name that captures what it does in a language people (read: users) can understand.
In the Enterprise world we call it SOA, it’s a TLA that summarizes block diagrams in a language people (read: analysts) can PDF.
Two of the same, yet so different.
I noticed something Mashups inately understand. Start small. Solve problems as they come. Don’t over-engineer. You have no budget, so make it work.
But they lack architecture diagrams.
(via co.mments)