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SOA Lives Forever

May 10, 2009 Oliver Widder

The pundits are still debating whether SOA lives or is already dead. See Joe McKendrick:

" (...)businesses need to get busy focusing on delivering services that fix a problem or deliver more value; and not get caught up in the idea of having some kind of an “SOA project.” "

SOA Market Predictions

March 15, 2009 Oliver Widder

While reading Joe McKendrick I asked myself: "Isn't anything SOA today?"

Business And SOA

November 26, 2008 Oliver Widder

IT And Business

November 17, 2008 Oliver Widder

Joe McKendrick asks: "SOA targets the business, but is the business sold on SOA?".

Trough Of Disillusionment

November 10, 2008 Oliver Widder

See Joe McKendrick about "SOA sinking into trough of disillusionment"

It's A SOA

July 12, 2008 Oliver Widder

Joe McKendrick quotes the Burton Group:

“Many of them had deployed multiple successful projects, but most of those projects were focused on just one integration problem,” Manes said. “It was just a bunch of Web services. … The service is only built for one application and it’s never going to be used again.”

Maybe it's sometimes just a question of will.

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