<<"Web services and SOA aren't boring," mused Sun's Tim Bray (pictured) 6 months ago in an essay about Sun's strategy that everyone seems to have forgotten. "But we may have to destroy that village in order to save it," he continued. Has that process now begun? Do SOA and Web services represent the grass that's about to be trampled as two familiar i-Technology elephants Sun and Microsoft fight?
I ask the question because Joe McKendrick was kind enough recently to blog my weekend thoughts about whether the "Web" in Web services is a misnomer. "Increasingly the market is talking more and more about SOAs," McKendrick wrote, in his follow-up, "and less about Web services." He continued: "In fact, nobody talks about WSOAs, because Web services are but one enabling aspect of SOAs. It will only make sense that 'services' will eventually be the operative term in this space." But this is not news. Not new news anyway. Both McKendrick - and his colleage Britton Manasco, who noticed that .NET Developer's Journal's editor-in-chief Derek Ferguson had written an opinion piece called "SOA Sucks" - seem to be unaware that Sun's own Tim Bray, he of the blog "Ongoing" among other community achievements, had done some "thinking aloud" just over six months ago, on the occasion of his 1st anniversary as a Sun employee, in which he appears to have let out of the bag the tactical cat that Sun's president and COO Jonathan Schwartz sprung on the world last week when he declared that the PC is "so yesterday" because the desktop is no longer what matters.>> You can read this at: http://linux.sys-con.com/read/135337.htm Gervas ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/NhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
