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The Burton Group's Anne Thomas Manes wrote a provocative post yesterday declaring that SOA (as a term at least) is dead. It will, of course, be replaced by...(drum roll, please)...SERVICES! Hmm...isn't that what the "S" in SOA stands for? To quote Manes:

Once thought to be the savior of IT, SOA has instead turned into a great failed experiment—at least for most organizations. In the beginning, the forecast for SOA was to reduce costs and increase agility on a large scale, but except in rare situations, SOA has not delivered those promised benefits.

But, take solace, consultants everywhere! For all is not lost...

SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”.

Ah, I knew there had to be a silver lining to that cloud (*sniff*).

Cheekiness aside, the reality is that many organizations haven't really had a clue as to what SOA really is or how to do it. They, led by all too eager vendors and the general vagueness of the term itself, naively equated "SOA" with tacking on web services to their existing applications or building an ESB like a "field of dreams"--which many did, and dutifully waited for the magic transformation to come. I

Dave Ploch posted on TwitterJanuary 7

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Dave Ploch posted on TwitterJanuary 7

Babywatch http://is.gd/eLMQ

Dave Ploch posted a new blog entry: BabywatchJanuary 7

Babywatch

Woo Hoo !!!! Our daughter was admitted to the hospital last night and was going to have labor induced at 12:01. What's up with that time? We should be grandparents again sometime this morning. Haven't heard anything yet (7:30am). Wish they didn't live in Texas.

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