*grumble* On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 19:05, Michael Poulin <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe that 'they' may not start "unifying view of customer, from the IT > point of view" because it must be started from the Business point of view.
It's comments like this and others of late here that is starting to drive me a bit crazy. How the friggin' nutbolter can you people decide upfront who is ready for SOA, what it is, where it starts, when it's a success, how it works, whose tummy it tickles, what length the rope should be, what components it must or must not have, and on and on and on? No, don't point me to the consensus of the list driven by strong opinions by people who seldom seems to compromise their viewpoint, the strong opinions based on years of experience which you've gained through being *your* kind of persons dealing with people in *your* way (or even, being in organizations that suit *you*), nor the standards bubbling out of the business and / or IT surface based on 70% "sell factor" and 30% individual opinions baked on "we tried this, and it worked, hence we must standardize on this way of doing it." This thing is *not* a "this is the way it works"; it's a thing that works from different angles, with different people and different technologies, organisations and infra/extrastructures in place (or waiting to be built). This is all more philosophies of being smart about supporting businesses through IT infrastructure. You can't say "it starts at the Business point of view", because that's just one of many starting points. Sure, *you* have had success that way, yet I bet there's people out there who's had success some other way (me included). This is my plea; don't be so arrogantly sure you've got all the answers, especially not the big, large and dismissive ones, because there is *no* single right answer to such generic things as SOA. The *discussions* here I love, but these big sweeping and most often dismissive comments are a friggin' pain in the UDDI. *end of grumble* Oh, and a happy new year to all! regards, Alex -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps ------------------------------------------ http://shelter.nu/blog/ --------
