--- In [email protected], Michael Poulin <m3pou...@...> wrote: > > I do disagree with Anne on "SOA is an IT architectural style. IT > people are responsible for designing the architecture of the IT > systems. Hence, SOA must be driven by IT." > > Who has defined, when and how that "SOA is an IT architectural > style" and not an architectural style applicable to both Business > and Technical (IT) architecture?
Gartner, in its original paper (widely credited to be the first formal description): "Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a client/server software design approach..." Throughout the paper, SOA is considered in the context of software and automation (IT). It was later that others realized SO principles applied well in other contexts. -Rob
