My take is this:
I agree wit h Andrew in that incremental changes in technology can
and do make significant differences and industry's stance that
technology is irrelevant and any Indian/Chinese (no offense intended
here, just need to express the view accurately) can build any
technology for pennies on the dollar is deluded. Hence, they end up
with technology that doesn't meet their needs and it only acts to
distance them further from technology itself being a solution.
However, I cannot give you the SOA point.
SOA is not about the technology. It's a way to structure thought
about building a system and the relationships between components in
that system. And, it is sometimes critical to have a way to express
concepts without being tied to implementation, which is what SOA
provides, much the way certain UML diagrams can express business
processes and use cases without having to introduce the systematic
handling.
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On Sep 2, 2007, at 1:30 AM, Nick Gall wrote:
Great post by Andrew McAfee (It's Not Not About the Technology) and
my post commenting on it ( SOA: Sometimes it IS about the technology).
-- Nick
