2008/12/22 Rob Eamon <[email protected]>: > --- In [email protected], "Steve Jones" > <jones.ste...@...> wrote: >> >> Somewhat entertainingly however the analysts have pretty much all >> not spotted the number of old style EAI products that have had an >> SOA veneer lobbed on top. You can put lipstick on the pig... but >> its still a pig. > > Didn't we cover this before? That it isn't the products that are pigs, > but the way they are used?
I'd go for the products and their marketing. The reality is that a lot (maybe all) of the old EAI products have just been rebadged as SOA without any actual though as to "services" except of course in the marketing which is all about services. I remember in about 2004 when a CIO said to a colleague "why would I buy these old EAI tools to do SOA, they just don't get it" but from 2004+ they've focused their marketing in a way that pretends that they do. I used a lot of the integration products back when I used to "think" SOA but have to deliver EAI and it was a pain, they were just doc shifting with the most convoluted and painful process/transformation parts which regularly failed to work as advertised. EAI was conceptually (IMO) one of the worst considered movements that IT has ever had. > > Is there anything I can do to get you to stop using that trite > metaphor? :-) If its good enough for Obama, its good enough for me ;) Steve > > -Rob > >
