The SOA Funeral is Postponed
After a vast hubub of activity and dozens of posts, we seemed to have reached the conclusion that what we're really discussing is the label "SOA" and the hype around it, not the use of a service-oriented architecture as the underpinning to much of what we're doing in enterprise software development today.
A particularly interesting article (and a string of comments) which sums things up can be found at http://weblog.infoworld.com/realworldsoa/archives/2009/01/could_the_adeat.html?source=NLC-SOA&cgd=2009-01-12 by David Linthicum.
I'm all in favor of eliminating hype and focusing on the work itself, so this sounds fine to me. I was particularly interested in Judith Hurwitz's comment to the post above, noting that she has 24 SOA case studies in her latest editin of SOA for Dummies and knows of many more that the clients deem too valuable to discuss in public.
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Posted by: Thomas P. Elderville | April 18, 2009 at 08:30 AM