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January 30th, 2009

Burton Group plans to lay SOA to rest (no pun intended)

Posted by Joe McKendrick @ 8:36 am

Categories: General

Tags: Burton Group, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

As we all know by now, Anne Thomas Manes tearfully announced that SOA met its untimely (or very timely) demise on New Year’s Day, the victim of an errant meteor, or some kind of weird piece of junk falling from outer space. (Or perhaps a stray shot from the grassy knoll, who knows?)

To lay SOA to rest and allow everyone to pay their respects in a respectful way, Burton Group announced a memorial service, scheduled for February 3rd.  And, as Burton Group put it, time to take good care of the offspring.

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SOA does not prescribe any technologies
An SO architecture definition does not require BPM, BAM nor ESB.

Architecture definition takes work and time. Implementing systems that follow that definition takes time. You cannot buy architecture. You must do the heavy lifting--and much of it has nothing to do with technology.... (Read the rest)
Posted by: reamon@... Posted on: 02/24/09 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Corporate Trolling  jabailo1 | 01/30/09
RE: Burton Group plans to lay SOA to rest (no pun intended)  jdubray | 01/30/09
RE: Burton Group plans to lay SOA to rest (no pun intended)  SOAToday | 02/24/09
SOA does not prescribe any technologies  reamon@... | 02/24/09

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