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That's why we here at InfoWorld have always felt that May is a good time to take a survey of the land and size up some of the new companies and technologies
that are clashing horns in Silicon Valley, Route 128, Research Triangle Park, and elsewhere.Last year, for example, Contributing Editor Galen Gruman brought you Tech Startups to Watch, which highlighted 15 technology startups with an interest in the enterprise.
(Galen will be revisiting some of those companies
later in the month).
This year, InfoWorld is going one better and is designating May the Month of Enterprise Startups (MOES), in which our writers and editors will
bring you a new enterprise startup each day for the month of May - 31 in total.
Why enterprise startups, you ask?
There are lots of reasons.
For one thing, young companies that sell into the enterprise
space tend to get lost in the media stampede toward trendy operations like Facebook and megadeals like Google's $1.65 billion offer for video sharing site YouTube in November 2006.
That 10-figure deal symbolized much of what this next wave in technology was about: the Web, youth, media, and content sharing.
But the froth over those deals obscures an equally important transformation that is happening in the enterprise, where Web-
based applications and collaboration are transforming the way that work is done.
After all, the massive YouTube deal overshadows a h...
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