On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 13:29, Anne Thomas Manes <[email protected]> wrote: > Why does a company need a different billing application for each > product that it sells?
Well, there are certainly reasons for doing so, one being that lots of products (like billing applications) are badly designed and can't take the heat of doubling the traffic hundreds of times over. A venture down the SOA path can often lead to somewhat related and costly affairs, some times even more costly than not doing any SOA at all. > Step one in a SOA initiative should be an application rationalization > effort. Well, I tend to do virtues and values first and *then* application rationalization, but yeah, I agree. :) regards, Alex -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps ------------------------------------------ http://shelter.nu/blog/ --------
