"Forty-two percent of respondents to a recent IBM-funded study said SOA (service-oriented architecture) is the top spending priority of their organizations, the company announced Wednesday. "
http://www.cio.com/article/391464/Study_SOA_Deployments_on_Rise
I read this article and almost laughed out loud. WOW, so 42% of people are spending most of their money on SOA. That number is 4 times higher than the people who actually understand what SOA is. Which I figure is roughly at 10%. :-) Even this article says this about SOA...
"While definitions of SOA vary"
So let me get this straight, SOA is taking off all over the place and companies are spending lots of money on it. But, we don't have common definition for it.
Basically, SOA was already being applied by forwarding thinking designers and developers. The idea of reuse has been around for 10 years or so. But now having a nebulous term "SOA" means that it is the most important thing to spend money on. The only difference I see is that the technology used to enable reuse (ESB, WebService, XML) has matured enough to become highly effective. Call it what you want, but everyone is doing SOA... just to a different degree of maturity. In addition, only with a well thought out strategy will SOA actually result in improved performance.
By the way, what is a SOA pilot? Can you even do that?
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This tells me there are a lot of smart and sneaky IT contractors out there and a lot of overpaid and stupid PMs mangaing them.
I'm going to whole heartedly agree with both you, Matt, and Vince. These people are idiots at best and a drain on our: tax dollars, consumer prices, time (listening to them say nothing), and the air they try to share with us- at worst.
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