Are you implying that ROI calculation is unnecessary because there may be some 
other benefit gained?

H.Ozawa

--- In [email protected], Alexander Johannesen 
<alexander.johanne...@...> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 19:58, Hitoshi Ozawa <htshoz...@...> wrote:
> > However, there is a
> > concern that a failed project might shed a bad image on SOA or even
> > worse, if all the budget was used to buy and develop something that is
> > totally unusable and was brushed beneath the desk at the dark corner
> > of the room. :-)
> 
> Sure, but I suspect that's more due to thinking SOA as a technology or
> a "right" answer or a set of methods or something you can wrap up in a
> box and sell. Once you get into the "SOA as a set of principles, goals
> and philosophies" then in reality, SOA can't fail as a unit or a
> connection point or a common signifier.
> 
> Anne is right about "SOA is dead, long live something else that is SOA
> but doesn't have those connotations", but the trick is what we're
> supposed to say and call it now. I still call it SOA, and then point
> out some technologies I use doing it, and people see the disjoint
> without me having to point it out, but then, I'm not *selling* SOA so
> I guess my approach is different from, say, a consultant.
> 
> > Oh, BTW. somebody found my server, which housed my first attempt at
> > ESB, in a forgotten cabinet at the back of the room today. I was
> > pretty certain that nobody would find it before I retire. So the world
> > goes. lol
> 
> So now they'll hunt you down, drag you out of retirement and make you
> pay for your sins? :)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alex
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