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Now, that's what I call a marketplace: Last week, I panned salesforce.com's AppExchange and wrote of my yearning for a platform that "actually takes care of metering and billing on-demand application usage from a variety of vendors." Unbeknownst to me, a company called StrikeIron launched that very platform on the very day I wrote those words...; Tags: Salesforce.com AppExchange, Web, Web service; Blog posts 2005-09-20
An 'eBay' of Web services: I recently had the opportunity to chat with Bob Brauer, CEO of StrikeIron, Inc., about the latest phase of his firm's "Web Services Marketplace" offering. (Q&A published here.) Since the marketplace will serve as a forum for both subscribers and publishers of various services, Brauer evoked the eBay analogy...; Tags: Bob Brauer, Web, Web service; Blog posts 2005-09-16

MIA at Gartner Symposium: The new guard (aka Guard 2.0): Strangely, at a time when the usually conservative Gartner research outfit is talking more about how businesses and organizations shouldnt so quickly rule out bleeding edge technologies, theres one group of people thats noticeably missing from the events agenda: the innovators that are bleeding that edge. For example, I...; Tags: Gartner Inc., Gartners; Blog posts 2006-10-09
IT buyers are becoming IT sellers: Yesterday, I posted news about SOA Software buying a company's internally built mainframe CICS-to-Web-services platform to offer on a commercial basis to the broader market. SOA Software had announced that it was acquiring Merrill Lynch's X4ML Mainframe Web services platform, as well as the people that built and maintain the...; Tags: entrepreneurial, information technology; Blog posts 2005-12-06
US Census data now a Web service: This interesting piece of news just in: StrikeIron Inc. has just announced the availability of U.S. Census Information as one its premium, pay-per-use Web services. The company notes that "by delivering hundreds of data points from the U.S. Census Bureau for any ZIP code, city, county, or state live...; Tags: StrikeIron Inc.; Blog posts 2005-06-20

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