I’ve been thinking about the drivers for SOA for a while now and think that there are two major directions initially taken up the SOA Mountain. Regardless of which path you travel you end up on the top of the mountain (assuming you implement well).
This is based on the idea that IT by itself isnt funded to do big bang SOA. So you need to make alliances. The first kind of alliance is centered around the notion of “Sustainability”. Why is this an important theme? Because it aligns the IT...