Steve Jones wrote: > 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. >
I don't understand the point you are making here. If we assume SOA is on the agenda; why has WOA/REST suddenly evaporated as a viable approach? > >> 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. > The Web isn't, but WOA is? > 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 Don't understand this either; would you mind elaborating, please? Regards, Mike
