It is the third instance of this Hype Cycle. The Hype Cycle This Hype Cycle covers a broad collection of concepts and technologies associated with cloud computing (see Figure 1). As always, once the hype dies down, the true value will arrive. XWiki has today over 100 customer references, and thousands of business users in France and worldwide. to dodge the hype and take advantage of the benefits that exist. Recently, XWiki was candidate of the French call for projects "Innovating Web" with the project Wiki 3.0 and is also one of the 10 successful French enterprises in open source (L'Informaticien, n° 68). This solution is designed to help organizations and communinities to organize information simply and to share it effectively. XWiki is a young company created in 2004 that provides services around its professionnal open source collaboration solution (licence LGPL), XWiki Enterprise, based on a second-generation wiki. But moreover, it is flexible and propose low acquisition costs a way for breaking the barriers. Gartner’s Hype Curve Garnter (2010) Gartners 2010 Hype Cycle Special Report Evaluates Maturity of 1,800 Technologies © Gartner, Inc.
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XWiki is mentionned in the « Social Software » category as a mature open source content management product, portal, community support platform and Web application framework, like his proprietary equivalents.
#Gartner hype cycle 2010 software#
The Gartner's Hype Cyle for Open Source Software is an annual report allowing to measure the maturity and market saturation of open-source solutions (classified according different categories like security tools, elearning applications, e-commerce software.) across the IT industry. XWiki is part of the latest Gartner's Hype Cycle for Open Source Software (in the « Open Source Social Software » section), published on 10 August 2010.