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SOA: The Long Road to Enterprise SOA

By Dick Weisinger

Burton Group‘s Anne Thomas Manes recently was quoted as saying that “an awful lot of companies are really not ready to do SOA“. SOA is not so much about technology as it is “how you think about the problem”. But

SOA: Even More Consolidation is on the Way

By Dick Weisinger

Big news over the last few months was Software AG’s acquisition of WebMethods. There has been a steady stream of acquisitions in the SOA space, especially by the majors. IBM and Oracle have had a strategy of acquisition of companies

SOA: Trying to Stoke up the Excitement Again around SOA

By Dick Weisinger

Articles started showing up in mid to late 2006 saying that SOA hype had saturated and had begun its descent on the hype scale. Developers and managers know that SOA can provide a very compelling architectural design, at least on

SOA: Adoption Numbers Too Positive

By Dick Weisinger

Evans Data reported that half of Enterprise software developers will be programming within an SOA environment in two years. And Gartner found that for big companies, those with more than 40,000 employees, that more than 67% are already using SOA.

Salesforce.com offers SOA as SaaS

By Dick Weisinger

Late in May Salesforce.com announced their offering of a new product, Salesforce SOA. It is being offered as part of its new platform and development language called Apex. Salesforce has positioned their Apex-based SOA solution as being much simpler and