I know that we are looking at a different market so that our views may differ, but I view it backward. It's not that SOA needs governance, I view it as SOA helps create governance in an enterprise. It's not SOA failed because there weren't any governance, I see it as SOA initiative was not conducted successfully to help create governance. :-)
Enterprise governance is necessary to remain competitive, and I think most executives understand this. (It seems like I give more credit to business people.) The problem, however, is that many executives are are not able to successfully create an enterprise governance policies when working within an organization. So many EA initiatives failed because it was too difficult to form group consensus because each group did not want to bend their own policy for the common good - a lose lose situation. SOA can be used to alleviates this problem by levering technology to influence creation of enterprise business policies. In all, making governance a prerequisite raises the hurdle while making governance an objective lowers it. I think the tools and our understanding has progressed over these years that we can begin to help these kinds of organizations. I think executives are trying their best - they just need some assistance to successfully execute what they really want to do and I think that's why we are here for. :-) Will hopefully be able to talk about it in Boston. H.Ozawa
