> Enterprise applications must also be platforms if they want to scale into the largest enterprises...every SAAS application should have APIs that allow their u

> Enterprise applications must also be platforms if they want to scale into the largest enterprises...every SAAS application should have APIs that allow their users to plug enterprise software together An API does not a platform make. The author makes some rather uncontroversial assertions about the "future of the enterprise" but doesn't talk about how the architecture of enterprise software is going to change. This strikes me as the more interesting question since the developer's choice of technology hinges on this. The three points made apply equally to Rails as they do to Java EE.