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I responded to Tom Davenport article on Why Enterprise 2.0 Won't Transform Organizations.
Tom, imply that knowledge sharing in enterprise will not evolve with Web 2.0 technologies.

As I am convinced it will, here is my response:
Tom,

I believe Enterprise 2.0 will be a big thing. It will take a significant amount of time, it may not be the next one, but it will.

Like a lot of technology it will change its name as it evolve and mature. The current E2.0 tools are in their second generation within 2 years you will have the third. Once the increase of productivity is proven and the tools/software integrated in the enterprises process and organization, a real evolution in enterprise will begin.

Take our small company, we are part of a new type of business that have fully integrated web 2.0 technologies.

Its started with the marketing, using blogs, forums, web 2.0 sites to build up awareness. Then we started integrating in house a Wiki, RSS Agregator, bookmarking software, web based email and groupware. Followed by Jabber instant messaging and Asterisk Voip PBX.

What happened next was a big thing, a significant evolution in our company. Inspired by MySQL organizational model we closed our head quarter office in Los Angeles where we had all our employees.

The company exploded in multiple small offices all over the world, Los Angeles, London, Bangalore, Paris.

Since then we have triple our profits and increased our growth.

Instant Message, wiki, voip, intranet and email make the backbone of our knowledge exchange.

All our applications are web based. Email, groupware, CRM, helpdesk, project management, CMS, intranet, accounting, invoicing, wiki, rss agregator, bookmarks, blogs.

Those technology enabled us to reorganized the company much more efficiently.

Enterprise 2.0 contribute to the global flattening.

As companies like ours grow and take advantages of Web 2.0 technologies to increase productivity, profit and employee satisfaction new organizational charts will defined, new management rules created, knowledge sharing optimized.

That what will make Enterprise 2.0 the future big thing.

I don't see big companies do what we did next week but I see it as a sure evolution that will affect the enterprise world overtime.

Yesterday one of our customer, Del-Jen was participating on a Panel about Demystifying Open Source.

Paul, Del-jen's CTO, demonstrated very well how his use of Open Source technology saved them a lot of money in licensing cost and consulting cost.

What was surprising to me is the long term cost.
Over a period of 4 years the cost of open source software did go down. The more they use it the less it costs.
On the other end the cost of commercial software increased constantly during the same period.
The cost includes licensing and consulting.

We started working with Del-Jen 4 years ago with a MySQL training and experimentation. After a year they started implementating Open Source Fusion Enterprise in a mission critical middleware.
This custom middleware interconnect and process time-sheets, forms, documents and payroll information to its 4000 employes all over the world.

The fact that total cost of ownership (TCO) of open source software is lower then commercial software is good.
But that this cost goes down over time is very good news.

Del-Jen is a Fluor company.

A new Beta of Open Source Fusion is live at:
www.opensourcefusion.com

The beta access code for this release is: osfbeta

This new beta includes 3 new applications a wiki software (dokuwiki) a project management software (netoffice) and a CRM software (Vtiger).

Net Office screen shot:

Give us your feedback, tel us what you think.

Jeff Kaplan, Software as a service specialist, mentioned SQLFusion in a blog post trying to dispell some Saas myths.

I definitely recommend you to have a look at his post and blog: ( Click here )

To add one point to Jeff's post, I would like to mention that Open Source Fusion (SQLFusion on-demand platform) not only provides open source software as a service, but additionally it allows a company to get customized/integrated open source software if needed. That software can either be developed by the company technical team using Open Source Fusion development tools or it can be developed by SQLFusion open source specialists for this company.

In other words, Open Source Fusion offers the best of what Saas can offer, giving you the choice between the one size fits all option (picking and using one of the many existing open source software for CRM, ERP, CMS, etc.) or a customized/integrated solution that matches the specificities of a business, building upon open source software.

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A new beta version of Open Source Fusion will be released next week. It will include 3 more applications (CRM, Project management system and Wiki) and a simplified application selection menu. Go to http://opensourcefusion.com to start using your favorite application.

The next step - planned for the end of April - will be the release of several Open Source application development tools.

It will compose a full web based application suite with which you can build custom database driven web based applications within your web browser. It will ease the development and integration of web applications built on Open Source Fusion web based platform.

Those Open Source Fusion development tools will include:

• A WYSIWYG User Interface builder, called the Page Builder, to build database driven web pages and database forms.
• A Site Manager to create new web application projects, setup ftp and database.
• A Web Based Integrated Development Environment called the WebIDE.

Stay tuned...