<<"Right now the biggest gotcha with SOA is market confusion and lack of understanding," says Teresa Jones, a senior research analyst at Butler Group. "Vendors could promise to deliver SOA and fail, because their technology is just one facilitator to SOA.">>
and <<The concept appeals to many -- 87 percent of 100 CIOs recently polled by Goldman Sachs say they are using Web services now, and 54 percent plan to deploy infrastructure to support SOA by year-end. But many I.T. executives still have trouble identifying the practical steps needed to achieve an enterprise SOA. Vendors are more than willing to jump in and help out. The catch is that SOA isn't easily packaged into new software license sales for vendors. SOA is more about changing the way I.T. delivers application services through architecture than getting a specific technology set in place. For instance, Web services technology and enterprise service bus (ESB) products could be part of an SOA, but companies using Web services and ESBs don't necessarily have an SOA. To make money in a growing yet still ambiguous market -- the overall Web services market is expected to reach $21 billion by 2007, IDC says -- vendors are adapting product-based sales pitches into services that offer to assess SOA readiness, govern SOA development and manage SOA implementations.>> You can find this report at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/post Gervas ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/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/
