On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Anne Thomas Manes <[email protected]> wrote: > > This post should generate a bit of discussion: > > http://apsblog.burtongroup.com/2009/01/soa-is-dead-long-live-services.html
Agree on the sentiments behind "SOA is dead". Disagree on the "long live services". It is service-orientation, as conventionally understood, that got us into the fragmentation caused by entity-specific (service) methods. I'd say instead, "long live the web." I'm shocked that your blog post does not even mention the web! I agree when you say, "it requires redesign of the application portfolio. And it requires a massive shift in the way IT operates." But the disruptive redesign required is to make IT more Web-like -- both in the architecture of software and in the way the ITO operates. The most "spectacular gains" we have are those of Google, Amazon, and even Salesforce. What they have in common is an embrace of the Web, including web architecture, web community, and web business models. To paraphrase your blog post: "Web-orientation is a prerequisite for rapid integration of data and business processes; it enables situational development models, such as mashups; and it's the foundational architecture for SaaS and cloud computing." -- Nick
