2009/1/11 Nick Gall <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Anne Thomas Manes <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Exactly my point. You don't sell SOA or REST to an executive. Even the >> Web is a tough sell. What you sell them is the Amazon/Google IT >> operational model (at least in the case of Bechtel). > > Agreed. You sell the Web to the business. The you sell WOA/REST to IT as > part of the approach for delivering the Web. The beauty of this approach is > that the business already knows about the Web, already believes it has > game-changing possibilities, etc.
Which is why they have websites... that doesn't mean that REST follows from Web. > The problem with SOA is there is no concrete success story comparable to the > Web to point business people to. Probably the company that they run and certainly the way that they perceive the globalised economy. I've always sold SOA as being about making IT work like the business. The Web isn't that (see my paraphrase of a real overheard conversation) its a technology. You can have WOA in a SOA world, but WOA will never get beyond the technology (IMO) while SOA is best done at the business level. Steve > -- Nick >
