There’s been a lot of discussion about the ‘death of enterprise RSS’ lately. ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick opened the debate by concluding there was no market with organisations for simple syndication and that the leading vendors into the enterprise market aren’t thriving. Furthermore, Forrester’s Oliver Young admits that his predictions of 2008 as the year of Enterprise RSS may have been wrong. These positions were disputed by Newsgator investor Brad Feld, who asserts that the company’s customers include…

• Two of the world’s top three banks.
• Two of the three largest banks in the US.
• The world’s largest private public relations firm.
• The second-largest advertising agency in the US.
• Two of the top three US manufacturers of network and communications equipment.
• The world’s second-largest law firm.
• Four of the top fifteen US pharmaceutical companies.
• Two of the top seven US aerospace and defense companies.
• One of the top five investment banks in Canada.
• The fourth-largest generator of electricity in the US.

The commentary at RWW’s original story has been vibrant, identifying confusing terminology, complex tools and prohibitive costs as the likely causative factors, indicating that there’s some substance to the case against RSS adoption.

Read more at Is Enterprise RSS Dead? Newsgator CEO: “Who cares?” and The enterprise RSS trigger.

Tags: Brad Feld, Feeds, News, NewsGator, Research, RSS, Syndication

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