Highly pliable software platforms with mashups, widgets, SaaS, etc.

Dion Hinchcliffe reports: We’re already witnessing this [highly pliable software platforms] with the rise of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), cloud computing, enterprise mashups, collaborative intranets that can be maintained almost entirely by workers (Enterprise 2.0), and the growing use of smaller, more granular microapplications such as widgets, gadgets, and visual feeds to combine and connect things together [...]