Just to clarify--I think Pilots and Proof-of-concept projects are important for some. And I also believe that some projects are just plain inappropriate for enterprise scale SOA. So I'm certainly not advocating a leap without thinking approach.
It's *after* you do the pilot and when you get into deploying services that impact the business and livelihood of your company where I think you need to deal with architecture (hmm loaded word, sorry). The concern I have isnt neccesarily with people doing small SOA things, it's more the idea that a small mentality can govern a big architecture... --- In [email protected], "Gervas Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <<Start Small. Start small. Start Small. Start Small. Oh wait, I > forgot to mention that you should probably Start Small. > > The superplatform vendors want you to do things "iteratively". > Iteratively is code word for dont build too fast so we can catch up to > the market! Platform vendors have long been hoping that SOA could be > defined as "all the stuff I have been selling for years, with a new > brand". Customers are too smart to fall for that and are steaming aheadÂ… > > I think the only folks who have gotten "Start Small" correct have been > Zapthink. > > The piece that they get right is that the things you do in a pilot are > the exact opposite of what you need to do to get to enterprise scale. > The shortcuts that seemed so expedient in the small picture are > impossible to avoid when you take a serious corporate asset and put it > up as a live service. > > If you dont have some reasonable architectureal guidance in place as > you go to enterprise scale, even starting small wont get you there. > > One Response to "The myth of start small" >> > > You can read this at: <http://www.soacenter.com/?p=43> > > Gervas > 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/
