Hi, --- In [email protected], Gervas Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > *Some venture capitalists (VCs) are killing SOA.* Money is tight, and > /some/ VCs have taken to micro-managing /some/ smaller SOA technology > companies in their portfolios. Unfortunately, they don't understand the > market and are making the wrong calls in many instances. What seemed > cool at the last cocktail party is perhaps not the right thing to do > within a particular SOA technology company. I'm seeing all sorts of > silly things out there now, including some SOA companies that are in the > process of closing their doors. >
I look it more as bad leadership who are very eager to get big funding from VC without any idea on how they are going to actually make big sales that can satisfy those VC. If the company which got the big funding is more interested in making 1 or 2 small sales instead of risking for a very large sales, there probaby isn't any hope of VC getting satisfied. > *Big consulting is killing SOA.* Here we go again, but the problem > continues. The larger consulting players that are typically systemic > within most global 2000 and larger government organizations are running > off cliffs with SOA on a daily basis. Bad advice, vendor-driven > architecture, lack of SOA skills, and lack of an overall path to SOA are > killing many a SOA project out there, and in most instances, with some > better guidance, it did not have to be that way. The larger consulting > organizations lead with the capable guys, and then drop off the kids to > actually do the real work. The larger SOA consulting players need to > invest in training, get a mentor, or stop playing the game. > It's coming down to customers now soon finding out what a consultant can actually do. If a consultant is talking about new nifty technology and do now have clear understanding the the development processes, customers are beginning to turn away. > *The lack of SOA skills is killing SOA.* SOA is not development, nor is > it traditional enterprise architecture; it's, well, SOA. Thus you can't > do SOA unless you have the knowledge around the proper approaches, > methodologies, and right enabling technology and standards. Most that do > SOA don't, and those folks fail. The lack of SOA talent is clearly > killing SOA. > Yes. There is a tendency for a business-SOA to make SOA into a development project and without a clear implementation approaches. H.Ozawa
