We just finished the New York Webops Summit. About 65 attendees showed up for the sessions, which were an interesting cross-section of application, network, and infrastructure discussions.

• James Ward from Adobe discussed the impact of Flash and Rich Internet Applications on networks
• Steve Shah of Citrix Systems looked at the impact of application front ends on data center resources
• Michael Leventhal of Tarari reviewed some of the threats that result from a reliance on port 80 and XML
• Tim Knudsen of Netli looked at application delivery networks and WAN optimization
• John Overton (a Coradiant customer) discussed ATG on-demand’s best practices for web operations
• And a panel including John Carton (Accenture), John Overton, Kamal Jain (Brassring) and Ian Rae (Syntenic)

Prior to the session, Interop surveyed the attendees and registrants; some of those surveys pertained to Web adoption within enterprises. Of the roughly 400 respondents (primarily in the networking industry) here’s what they found:

Roughly half of the companies use the web for public, intranet, and remote access; but relatively few (under 10%) are entirely web-based at this point.

Within that group, only a few are using AJAX or Flash-based Rich Internet Applications, although many of the network-focused respondents didn’t know.

The next Webops Summit will be at Interop Las Vegas in late May. If you’re interested in participating or presenting, contact me at Coradiant or check out the Interop website.