A recent report from Forrester predicts enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies to increase dramatically over the next five years, the end result being a gloabl enterprise market of $4.6 billion by the year 2013.
Read this in conjunction with the another report on the prices of Ent 2.0 apps,which suggests that "...the price drops (of Enterprise 2.0 apps) will be due to cutthroat competition, commoditization, bundling, and subsumption, with many startups and established big companies competing for the enterprise dollar..."
Among the popular tools, maximum price drops will happen in blog, wikis, social networking and widgets. But the only one that could command a higher price is mashups, which will see a steady rise over the next five years.
It is to be noted that new innovations in the blogging tools arena may not happen, as it is a saturated space, where the feature differences between the players is not of much significance. On the other hand, Wikis that are intuitive and easy to use are not available aplenty, and hence new players like SocailText will continue to have an edge.
Mashups have not gained as wide an accepatability within the enterprise as the other 2.0 tools and given its potential, it will rise in prices and features, while the other mature tools will bow down to price cuts and commoditization.
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