--- In [email protected], "Nick Gall" <nick.g...@...> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Anne Thomas Manes <atma...@...> 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 >
i go all the way with your paraphrase,Nick! b Nazir
