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Web 2.0 technologies are gaining acceptance in a wide variety of venues.  Noted analyst and journalist, Dion Hinchcliffe has identified leading Web 2.0 software vendors and applications as they apply to enterprise applications.  Most note-worthy of his observations is the change in attitude for large enterprises evaluating participatory web components such as blogs and wikis. 

"We are past the early adopter phase. A survey of Enterprise 2.0 conference attendees that I gave back in 2006 (when it was called the Collaborative Technologies conference) resulted in only three people out of nearly 100 saying they had “ready access to blogs and wikis” at their workplace. This year the same crowd survey resulted in over two-thirds of attendees present reporting that they now have them within easy reach. This jibes well with my contacts with clients across a broad swath of industries from mid-Western banks, hospitals, government agencies, consumer products, and insurance companies that have been rolling them out internally. This also correlates with a broader survey I conducted on Facebook a few months ago. While emergent, social, freeform collaboration (aka Enterprise 2.0), hasn’t hit the early majority yet, it’s poised to from all indications." (Dion Hinchcliffe - Enterprise 2.0 Lively conversation driving change - ZDNet June 16, 2008 )

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