As proof of the mixed messages on SOA, I can point to two events I attended in the past month - an IBM analyst event and Microsoft's TechEd conference. Vendors have yet to learn how to communicate the value of a service-oriented architecture, or...
At silicon.com's CIO Forum event in London earlier this year British Airways CIO Paul Coby said IT chiefs need to be thinking now about how these new disruptive technologies will impact their business, staff and customers.
Forrester's advice to IT buyers is to choose one or two of the "big four" IT vendors to anchor the company's IT strategy but retain competitive leverage in architecture and purchasing and open up to the "four horsemen" to drive productive change.
The Aberdeen Group benchmark report Enterprise Service Bus and SOA Middleware surveyed more than 120 IT and business professionals and found that 90 per cent are adopting or have already adopted SOA technologies.
That first SOA service for in-pool betting has primarily been "a DIY effort" but the Tote also used the Sonic Enterprise Service Bus product from Progress Software to develop functionality that can be built once and then reused across all its...
And there was me believing that SOA was all about creating discrete pieces of reusable functions that could be put together as composite applications. Then, there was an analyst event held alongside TechEd, where Microsoft's approach to service...