When Is A Mashup Not A Mashup, And Does Anyone Care?
This post by a Gartner analyst-blogger left me a bit confused. (Link Via)
Yes, Anthony is right, there is no such thing as a “data mashup”. Good. But a part of me can’t help but wonder why, or to whom, that question is relevant. Anyone other than an industry analyst, that is.
My company builds and delivers composite applications for SAP customers. Not one of them has ever asked us for a definition of a composite application or if what we are building is indeed a true mashup. The question “are you using HTTP/REST/SOAP/RSS/XML/ATOM?” has not been asked even once. What they are asking us are questions like “will your application make our sales operations process better?” and “our account planning cycle takes too long - how can you shorten it?”
No disrespect to Anthony Bradley, but seriously, why should customers care for vendors’ descriptions of their offerings?
Tags: Composite Applications, general