I've been positioning SOA as the true path for some time, but I have never characterized it as a panacea or a silver bullet. I've always said that it was hard work.
Anne On 1/9/09, Rob Eamon <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure, sure. SO is the only path to salvation. Until the next thing > comes along. > > In other forums I've been asking, "who's been positioning SOA as a > panacea or a silver bullet?" Has it been you? :-) > > -Rob > > --- In [email protected], Michael > Poulin <m3pou...@...> wrote: >> >> The new King - Service Orientation - would not agree with >> this: "The items that will contribute to success are those in this >> list. Not SO, in and of itself" >> >> Why SO is always right (like a customer)? Because SO is the core of >> the Business (which, BTW, is the customer of IT). I think, this is >> what Steve Jones means when saying that SOA is the business thing. >> Another story with the second part of that expression - 'not all >> customers are always right to you'. This may be read as not every >> IT is up to the business needs. >> >> Things like "Focusing on business goals, values and benefits. >> Collaborating and building consensus. Track and measure" will be >> always successful if done in service-oriented manner. >> >> With regard to "Many prior efforts at transforming a company fail >> but not because of the architectural approach nor the technology. I >> conjecture that the root cause of those failures is often these >> listed items" - to transform company, there should be a reason at >> the level of risk of the company existence. In prosper time, such >> reasons do not appear (acquisition is not always a disaster or >> destruction for the acquired company; example: Cambridge Partners >> was bought by Novell but who is managing Novell now? - Cambridge >> Partners people). Another situation exist during the crisis - >> disability to transform and do it quickly comes with the high >> probability of crash. >> >> My theory is that Service Orientation at the enterprise level is >> the survival receipt to the companies during the crisis. Why? I >> will write about it in my blog. >> >> - Michael > > >
