Miko Matsumura Platform Software Executive Technologist

SOA 2009: gradual enlightenment

In an earlier blog post, I spoke of the style of technology leadership coming from Japan. In this post, I would like to explore how the philosophies of Japan including Zen Buddhism and Bushido can be understood as contrasting ways to adopt SOA in your organization. I’m not a religious person, but I have spent a number of hours in zen meditation at silicon valley’s Kannon Do Zen center, and feel that I have some familiarity with the traditions of my family. The Samurai Approach to...

If SOA is truly dead . . . ¦ Shane Schick’s Computerworld

A lovely post called “If SOA is truly dead”… Another great read in this general category comes from the insightful James Governor’s assertion that 99% of everything in software is “dead”, a rant I had heard in person but had not seen as a blog post… until now. If SOA is truly dead . . . | Shane Schick’s Computerworld 11. If SOA is truly dead, there’s a great history to be written from all the blog posts. 12. If SOA is truly dead, IBM and many...

Breaking News: SOA Not Dead After All

After being pronounced dead earlier this week, in an exceedingly improbable turn of events, SOA narrowly avoided being plowed by a meteor by evolving wings and flying off all the while making an annoying squawking sounds. In an interview, Miko Matsumura, proprietor of the web site formerly known as SOA Center said “I’m completely perplexed, completely flummoxed.” Mr. Matsumura had changed the name of his web site from SOA CENTER to WHATEVER CENTER to commemorate the...

Whatever Center recieves kudos from key analyst in the whatever sector

I woke up this morning to see that Anne Thomas Manes had twittered my changing the SOA Center web site to whatever center… atmanes Love Miko’s response to “SOA is Dead”: http://whatevercenter.com/ about 1 hour ago from web A great boost to our little thought experiment… On a more serious note to real practitioners, I am composing a baby/bathwater list to try to reorganize the architectural insights and patterns as well as challenges in Enterprise IT. The...

SOA is Dead, long live Whatever!

In honor of Anne’s declaration that SOA is Dead, I have decided to shut down the SOA CENTER blog site. I would like to inaugurate my new blog, now called the WHATEVER CENTER at http://www.whatevercenter.com It will take a while for the URL http://whatevercenter.com to propagate through the DNS, so for the time being, please keep using http://soacenter.com This new blog will be dedicated to building solutions in large-scale software deployments, architecture, cloud computing, composite...

SOA is Dead, what’s next, pundits?

In Anne Thomas Manes’s blog, she states: SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”. It’s a good read and certainly a legitimate way of looking at the world. As you know from my blog, I have taken a very evolutionary perspective on SOA and on technologies used in the...

SOA is Dead, what’s next, pundits?

In Anne Thomas Manes’s blog, she states: SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”. It’s a good read and certainly a legitimate way of looking at the world. As you know from my blog, I have taken a very evolutionary perspective on SOA and on technologies used in the...

SOA is Dead, what’s next, pundits?

In Anne Thomas Manes’s blog, she states: SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”. It’s a good read and certainly a legitimate way of looking at the world. As you know from my blog, I have taken a very evolutionary perspective on SOA and on technologies used in the...

SOA is Dead, what’s next, pundits?

In Anne Thomas Manes’s blog, she states: SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”. It’s a good read and certainly a legitimate way of looking at the world. As you know from my blog, I have taken a very evolutionary perspective on SOA and on technologies used in the...