I realise that I’m guilty of using the phrase ‘really understand’ twice in post titles in the last month and started to think the same way for this post too. The point I keep struggling with, is thinking of familiar, well-understood existing technology topics in a new context. Here is a quote from the well known business technology author Peter Fingar: “the big deal is, that cloud computing buying medicine online is a disruptive delivery model…it’s an economic, not technology shift”. That’s a pretty good summary of why I keep looking at common technology elements and thinking again about their use and role in the context of clouds, web 2.0 and business technology. My return to SOA as a topic after blogging on it a few weeks back was driven by Randy Heffner at Forrester, who produced an excellent piece of research that updates the casual market view of SOA with a much more in-depth study under the title: ‘SOA is far from dead, but it should be buried’ . As Forrester Research is a paid for commercial commodity unlike many of the other sources I highlight, I can’t give away too much, but hope Randy wont mind if I quote from his ‘free’ summary: Randy’s point is that SOA is part of a much larger technology change and should be seen as part of this, not as a standalone solution. Therefore, it should be buried in the much larger Buy Acomplia Online issue of delivering cloud, web 2.0 and collaboration based solutions. Posted by Andy Mulholland on September 7, 2009
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SOA is not dead, but it is Transformed