Miko Matsumura Enterprise Software Executive Technologist

SOA Summit Wrap Up

In the spirit of saving you a few bucks, I’ll provide a summary of the Software AG SOA Summit event in Scottsdale, AZ. First off, we have a bit of coverage of the event… * Joe McKendrick blogged about “Stepping out of your Silo” * Jignesh blogged about “…a turning point in the SOA Movement” * Jason Bloomberg picked up on “Evolution is about Survival” If I were to echo a sentiment from the packed-to-capacity event in Scottsdale Arizona,...

Stop talking SOA and start digging it

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...

ESB Hate Storm

Lots of hate for the ESB lately. Everything from Joe McKendrick’s E-s-Busted to Dave Linthicum’s ESB Hurting SOA, we are in the midst of a full-fledged backlash. I’m certainly sympathetic to these views. The SOA “patient” is already pretty sick. Years of Tribal IT battles, “quick fix” technology solutions that dont interoperate and create more hassles than they fix, project funded IT driven by inconsistent objectives and just plain years of abuse....