‘SOA’ dead as of January 1st, analyst says | Service-Oriented Ar. Say it isn't so. Or, more aptly, say it isn't SOA.... Anne Thomas Manes says that service oriented architecture -- at least in the form we've known it -- has finally hit the wall. It hasn't been delivering ROI, and organizations need to move on to better and faster initiatives. She says the current economic downturn has driven a stake through the heart of a methodology that was, in her opinion, already barely clinging to life. 'SOA' a casualty of failed expectations, or of semantics? Anne posted the following " obituary " for service oriented architecture: "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. I started this particular blog back in November of 2004, and have heard SOA declared dead over and over again through the ensuing years. Anne says companies have been fiddling with SOA for some time now, and to little or no avail.
In her post, Anne adds that the "people holding the purse strings have had enough. Is SOA really dead? A blog post titled " SOA is Dead; Long Live Services " was directed to me by a couple of persons. It highlights, what I first started to describe a couple of years ago as " Journalist led technology "; sometimes I do believe that it is Analyst led as well. That is, that the potential promise of the technology genres and acronyms, in this case SOA, take over.
Without necesarrily having the real world experiences to back it up, to cut through the hype. We most not forget that SOA means Service Oriented Architecture. It is an architectural style, that is a different style, then what has been used in the past in the client/server world of old. " to SOA or not to SOA " which I wrote about a couple of years ago, is always an interesting question. "What are the alternates to a SOA style architecture?
To me Anne has highlighted the true issue that has been missed which is the important stuff: architecture and services. SOA Infrastructure Blog: Goodbye SOA, we hardly knew you. Giving up on Microsoft software for work - initial status report. My monitor blanked out on my Windows XP based IBM T42p Thinkpad. Worry crossed my mind, as I thought the machine had died. Quickly, I realised that the monitor had turned itself off for no reason. I rebooted (as it was a Windows machine) and the system came back. I didn't think much more about it, until about two and half weeks ago, when it started happening again. I moved over to my OpenSuSe 10.3 Linux desktop and decided to retire the Windows XP Thinkpad. Now, I had a Desktop back and quickly got my Email, Lotus Sametime and Skype working. This was completed on 3rd May 2008, I raised it on twitter that I was going Microsoft Free. I was very surprised with the improvements in Open Office and have been able to perform all activities necessary with it for a full work week, two weeks straight.
Working virtual, I need to be able to pick up my work environment and go on-premise on the odd occasion. Real World SOA | David Linthicum | InfoWorld | Linthicum’s SOA P. Predicitons for 2008 using my del.icio.us tag cloud. Its that time of year, when writing about your predictions for 2008 is all the rage. I've been tagging some by others on del.icio.us with prediction2008 . I've included my current del.licio.us tags in descending order of importance. It highlights the areas that I have had an active interest in either for current work or for research of future activities. So i've used them as the subjects for my predictions for 2008.
Software as a Service will continue to become mainstream , as skilled resources become harder to find, internet connectivity latency decreases with the corresponding increase in bandwidth capacity. Wall Street will be even more attracted to the SaaS recurring pricing models, such that it will provide a higher potential exit price for Venture Capital backed organisations. Will continue to see their core Information Technology assets as a cost of doing business and will treat it as a commodity component.
Lots of great material. Will still be here at the end of 2008.