To summarize my previous response: SOA must be business-driven (i.e., the goals of the SOA effort should be focused on generating positive business outcomes), but it should not be driven by business people. (Business people don't grok the necessity of SOA, and therefore they will not be good leaders for the effort.)
Anne On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Rob Eamon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > --- 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 > >
