Miko Matsumura Enterprise Software Executive Technologist

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...

Buh Bye Aqualogic

Gavin Clarke writes that BEA’s Aqualogic business unit is being broken apart by Oracle. Content stuff going over to Stellant, while the BPM stuff going into Fusion middleware. ugh, seems like lots of upper management heads rolled at BEA also. I suppose it’s not pretty but also not very...

SOA Software buys LogicLibrary, Yawn…

SOA Software continues to buy companies. I believe that this is in a way similar to SOA Software’s buy of Blue Titan. For that they picked up Frank Martinez and some good customers, Pfizer and some others. For this, they pick up Brent Carlson, another good thinker and long time SOA industry veteran. LogicLibrary has always fallen into the same category as Flashline (BEA acquisition and now Oracle), which is to say a repository vendor. The SOA game is a little about registry, a little...

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...

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...

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...

SOA: Global Optimization and Sustainability

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...

soa governance do be do be do

I’ve been hearing a lot about SOA Governance is something you do not something you buy. Dave Linthicum says it. Anne Thomas Manes says it. I happen to agree… but I want to make sure we dont overcorrect. I responded to Dave’s post with the following: Sculpting is also something you do, not something you buy. Buying a chisel doesnt make you Michaelangelo However, even Michaelangelo doesnt try to carve marble with his bare hands. So get the best people AND the best tools and...