Brace yourself: You’re about to be Ajax-ed, mashed up, Web-two-dot-oh’ed. There is, Gartner Research analysts warn, a “more open, flexible and participatory model for empowering third parties and consumers to repurpose content and services in new and unique ways” in your future — like it or not. And all of the overlapping software that allows it is swarming with other people’s code.
Figuring out who owns the code in an organization can be an enormous and vexing challenge, thanks in no small part to the widespread acceptance of open-source software. The advent of the still fuzzily defined Web 2.0 — which seems to encompass everything from Web services, Ajax and service syndication, to wikis, mash-ups, podcasts and even blogs — promises to add significant complexity to that challenge.
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