On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:50, Rob Eamon <[email protected]> wrote: > I would offer this addition: don't pursue an "SOA initiative." That, IMO, is > the completely wrong thing upon which to focus.
Completely wrong, eh? :) Well, lots of organisations find out that their current infra-structure is becoming rather inflexible and jump on SOA (or what they perceive as SOA) as a means to fix it. I'd say, good for them! Even with a bad lessons learnt they'd still get some positive outcomes from it; architecture in general, web-services (or equivalent) as a wrapper, service-minded thinking, etc. > Using SO principles might > help structure a system to meet particular goals but SOA is not the > end-game. For companies which are at their wits end, I'd say it just might be, and that it might not even be a wrong thing to pursue either. Playing it as an end-game is an opportunity for the organisation to take it further once their brains click around the concepts. > It is one particular way to organize the components of an > (probably enterprise) architecture. Well, not so much a way to organize as it is a way to *think* about organizing it. :) Regards, Alex -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps ------------------------------------------ http://shelter.nu/blog/ --------
