Archive for April, 2008

SOA Cures ESSD, WOA Treats the Symptoms

With all the debate in the Blogosphere about WOA (like Tony Baer’s post), it’s important to answer two questions: Why are we doing SOA and How far does SOA go? Why are we doing SOA? I have been looking at a lot of SOA projects worldwide, and I have come to the conclusion that there is a very specific disease of Enterprise IT that SOA cures. It cures chronic ESSD, or Enterprise Software Stupidity Disease. Diagnosing Enterprise Software Stupidity Patient is a decades-old...
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SOA + POA + WOA = SOA

Since my post “SOA is Over the Sky is Falling”, I hear there’s rumors on the Internets that the chattering classes are getting impatient with limited SOA success stories. The key example is Analyst and Uber Thought Leader Anne Thomas Manes who recently noted in her blog: It has become clear to me that SOA is not working in most organizations. Blogger Illuminatus Joe McKendrick responded with the following interpretation: The issue, Anne points out, appears to be that SOA is still...
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SOA WOA and the Peacock’s Tail

There’s a lot of talk about SOA and WOA led by ZDNet Blogger, Analyst and great guy Dana Gardner. WOA is a very fast paced “Web 2.0-ish” way to innovate and mash up concepts quickly. And the massive power of it is that you are standing on the shoulders of Giants who have built “Social Utilities” and amazing Web-Oriented APIs so that you can use astonishingly simple expressions and get vasty goodness (technical term) very easily. The article states… WOA has evolved via massive...
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