Joe McKendrick of ZDNet invented the phrase “Shovel ready SOA”
I too like this metaphor… I see a lot of digging going on.
I spent yesterday talking to a large enterprise doing SOA and there was a joke that you had to pay a dollar every time you said “SOA”. It’s no longer cool to talk about SOA!
But it was all we talked about all day for four hours, in a meeting with about twenty people. It’s pretty funny. People were “digging...