The idea of buying an enterprise application from a startup company might sound like anathema to a CIO. But Chris Laping, CIO of restaurant chain Red Robin, based in Greenwood Village, Colo., disagrees. He believes we're in the middle of a significant shift that favors startups -- moving from huge applications with extensive features to task-based activities, inspired by the apps running on mobile devices.ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Google Graveyard: Here\\'s what Google has killed so far in 2014Mirco Mueller concurs. He is an IT architect for St.

The idea of buying an enterprise application from a startup company might sound like anathema to a CIO. But Chris Laping, CIO of restaurant chain Red Robin, based in Greenwood Village, Colo., disagrees. He believes we're in the middle of a significant shift that favors startups -- moving from huge applications with extensive features to task-based activities, inspired by the apps running on mobile devices.ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Google Graveyard: Here\\'s what Google has killed so far in 2014Mirco Mueller concurs. He is an IT architect for St.

The idea of buying an enterprise application from a startup company might sound like anathema to a CIO. But Chris Laping, CIO of restaurant chain Red Robin, based in Greenwood Village, Colo., disagrees. He believes we're in the middle of a significant shift that favors startups -- moving from huge applications with extensive features to task-based activities, inspired by the apps running on mobile devices.ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Google Graveyard: Here\\'s what Google has killed so far in 2014Mirco Mueller concurs. He is an IT architect for St.

The idea of buying an enterprise application from a startup company might sound like anathema to a CIO. But Chris Laping, CIO of restaurant chain Red Robin, based in Greenwood Village, Colo., disagrees. He believes we're in the middle of a significant shift that favors startups -- moving from huge applications with extensive features to task-based activities, inspired by the apps running on mobile devices.ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Google Graveyard: Here\\'s what Google has killed so far in 2014Mirco Mueller concurs. He is an IT architect for St.