Office 2.0 is generally associated with what comes after Microsoft Office, currently represented by a new class of on demand, hosted office productivity suites from Zoho, Think Free, Google and others. ^{link »}

However, this event is really less about Office 2.0 and more about Work 2.0, which is why Microsoft is not such an ironic choice as a host for the event. Web 2.0 is a bunch of technologies–blogs, wikis, RSS, mashups, tags, etc.–that need to be integrated as part of work environments. It's turning Web 2.0 into Work 2.0. ^{link »}

Longjump CEO Pankaj Malviya demoed an on demand platform for building Web applications. ^{link »}

Mashery provides the infrastructure to manage the giving and taking of APIs, with security and access controls; monitoring, metering and metrics; performance and scalability; developer and community tools and distribution. ^{link »}

Proto Software offers a set of tools for building mashups, combining Web services a, such as Google Maps, and desktop applications, such as Excel and local data, such as from enterprise databases, to build composite applications. ^{link »}

Teqlo has created an on demand mashup platform (I wrote about it here ), composite application builder based on Web service protocols. ^{link »}

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