Demo Pavillion and a vege out, literally

Lunch! hurrah. Was getting pretty hungry after my fruit full morning. Had a veggie meal again. Will request for kosher/muslim food to be served the next time around event organizers. Must remember.

The demo pavillion had both the large corps and smaller start ups. Although, I had expected many more considering the increasing size of the Social Sofware market especially in the US. I dropped by booths of a community server provider, SocialCast, Zoho, OpenText, IBM among others. I guess in the next conference, I would expect our local players to have booths here too. Next September guys?

Differences between vendors? Depending on what you are looking for.
The social networks for entreprises look very similar to each other. From the Lotuses to the SocialCast.

• SocialCast combines traditional intranet with social networks.
• Zoho does some swell document collabo, notetaking, presentation, project management, some both on line and offline among others.
• OpenText started off as an Enterprise Content Management provider at the University Waterloo in 1991 but has evolved to include social apps in many of its products and services.

MDeC is pretty special. We like it when our vendors cater to all our whims and fancies because we're a quasi NGO, quasi government, quasi private, depending who's asking. :). There are some aspects of the standard enterprise 2.0 that we can work with, others may actually require some level of customisation embedded on an enterprisey application, which we are looking to do.