> So where does this leave us? Well > if more people took the time to cast their vote (one vote per person please) > we may be able to draw some conclusions from these polls. Without that the > waters are still a little murky as far as WOA is concerned.
People's opinions, and whether or not we know them, cannot change the kind or degree of architectural properties present in the software systems we build. So far, as an industry, we've figured out two ways to answer questions like "Is the Foo style better for what I need to do?". The hard way is to actually build the system and see if it exhibits the desired properties. The easy way is to apply what we've learned of the study of software architecture over the last 20 year or so, and figure out what properties the system will have before hand. The latter approach is a few orders of magnitude cheaper of course, but unfortunately the bulk of the industry seems set on the former. Mark.
