ActiveGrid: How Mashups Complement SOAs

Web 2.0 Data mashups are to SOA what NASCAR is to automobile production -- a much faster, more free-flowing, results-oriented way of combining complementary components into new applications that have an advantage over traditional months-long application development or production cycles. And they seem to be rivaling NASCAR in popularity as large, medium and small software companies are all offering mashups. At the forefront of the movement is San Francisco-based software company ActiveGrid, which is offering free on-site "Build Days" to qualifying companies to deploy their mashups.