<<Last year, Yankee Group predicted that more than 70 percent of companies from many industries would be immersed in SOA by this time. AberdeenGroup says its more like 90 percent the other week, the analyst firm issued a survey report that said at least 90 percent of companies are on their way to SOA "nine of every 10 companies are adopting or have adopted service-oriented architectures and will exit 2006 with SOA planning, design, and programming experience." Evans Data also released survey results, but concludes that only 24 percent of companies have what they consider to be functioning SOAs but this is almost double from a year ago.
These statistics vary wildly, and lead one to conclude that SOA must be in the eye of the beholder, because one company's "SOA" may be, in someone else's view, a Spaghetti-Oriented Architecture or "JBOWS" (Just a bunch of Web services). But just as likely, one of the inherent properties of SOA is that is not a finished project that gets wrapped up in a bow after six months with its builders and proponents moving on to something else. SOA is an architecture, and architectures are ongoing, living, breathing entities (carrying on at least six of the seven life processes). There is no definitive end point, nor should there be. (Though David Linthicum asked a good question, 'how do you know when you're done?', pointing out that there may be a point where an SOA begins to show diminishing returns.) A new qualitative research report out of Saugatuck Research questions how far along we really are with SOA. (Thanks to reader BCohen for pointing to this new report.) Saugatuck calls SOA adoption "modest" at this point,referring back to predictions just 18 months ago which pointed to strong uptake of SOA methodologies and related technologies.>> You can read this in full at: <http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=667&asrc=EM_NNL_384229&uid=5532089> Gervas ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SktRrD/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
