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SOA: Projects Delayed by Economic Slowdown
In the last part of 2008 Gartner reported that many organizations were delaying SOA projects and the number of organizations that had no plans to use SOA at all went from 6% in 2007 to 16% in late 2008. Then, early this year, Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton group declared “SOA dead”. Many analysts agreed that SOA requires an investment in new software infrastructure that may takes years before payback and many companies just can’t afford it in tough economic times.
The proclamation of SOA death is no doubt premature, but the patient is sick.
InformationWeek released a survey in mid-February to see how companies view SOA. The survey found that only 23 percent had deployed SOA — and only 7 percent of them opened up their SOA to external users. 29 percent are experimenting with it and 31 percent have no interest in SOA.
SOA is being transformed and many users are choosing a light-weight approach, using REST Web Services instead of SOAP and relying heavily on the internet rather than private networks.
