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Survey: SOA Prominent On 2005 budgets

Posted by Hemos on from the bigger-deal-then-it-sounds dept.

Michael S. Mimoso writes "A Yankee Group survey of 473 enterprise decision makers reveals that companies have put aside money for service-oriented architectures for 2005." This is a bigger deal than it sounds - if companies keep moving this away, it will mean a sea change in corporate technology usage - and change the way/why development is done. We're talking everything from SOAP stuff (ITMJ is part of OSTG) to wholesale ASP adoption like Salesforce.com.

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  1. Latest buzz phrase and how it can be abused by sartin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think the key indicator in the article that this is the latest in buzz phrase compliance was the recommendation that "Vendors have to get on the pulpit." It's all about getting the customers over the hump into buying all of the application servers and services that will give them true SOA.

    The biggest hurdle is that "executives do not understand Web services or loosely coupled architectures" (per the Yankee Group's Philip Fersht). There's the rub, and the value, of the thing. The executives don't understand the value of separation of applications (what Roger Sessions calls Software Fortresses), but are beginning to be taught. If they can loosely couple, they begin to get choice of vendor at a finer scale. They can choose different vendors for differents parts of their critical systems. So the strategy of the large, integrated solution vendors will have to be to sell the buzzphrase while continuing to delivery monolithic messes.

  2. Yankee Group by Rupert · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I will listen to what they have to say when they stop employing SCO shill Laura Didio.

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  3. Re:um by Mateito · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Fersht predicted that during the next 12 months more companies will try to bring SOAs across an entire enterprise and then explore integration with the entire value chain. Vendor evangelism will help accelerate that process,

    May I be the first to say "WTF".

    SOA may be something useful. Unfortunately (?), this article does nothing to explain what it is, only that you need it, your business needs it, and if you don't you are going to be left behind all those other companies that allready have it.

    I gotta invent me something like this, make it cool, and make a mint flogging it.

    However, posting it to slashdot WILL NOT be my preferred manner of drumming up business.

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  4. Re:Holy cow by jedaustin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you haven't tried bullfighter (from the guys at deloitte) and are use word/powerpoint at the office, you'll love it.

    According the the bullfighter Index, the article gets:
    Bull Composite Index of 5.9 (not horrible)
    Bull index of 94 (good)
    Average sentence length (good)
    Syllables/word (ok).

    And the part I love.. the Flesh score.. 36:
    Diagnosis: Teetering on the edge of unclear. The overall meaning remains discernible, but it becomes possible to lose oneself in corollary thoughts, which may be worth exploration, but which can also detract from the core point of the written article.

    Anyway.. off topic but fun.

    JD