A recent businessweek
article provides examples of companies using mashups for their daily activities. As companies look at their IT portfolio, they have to have a place for proprietary software, packaged software, opensource software and mashups. Just like the vendors in the opensource ecosystem that has grown in the recent years, players have entered the mashup marketplace with solutions that support development and maintenance of applications. While there are security and privacy issues to be resolved, companies should not ignore mashups as a software development strategy.