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SOA: 2007 SOA Prediction Round-up
To close out the year, ZDNet and InfoWorld both collected thoughts from some of the thought leaders about SOA.
Here are some of their findings:
2007 had many consolidations, mergers and acquisitions.
RedHat acquired JBoss
HP acquired Mercury
Mercury acquired Systinet
IBM acquired FileNet
Progress and Actional/Sonic merger
BEA / Flashline
WebMethods / Infravio
– Software and service line are blurring, so any acquisition now has an SOA component.
– The RedHat/JBoss merger shows the force of Open Source in SOA.
– SOA is an enabler for smaller software companies to specialize and sell into the enterprise
– SOA startups in 2006 centered on governance, process management, and security
– SOA hasn’t hit it’s stride yet. Expect more mergers and consolidation.
– Perhaps there has been too much consolidation and too soon.
– Within SOA, Governance was one of the most major topics for 2006.
– Despite widespread adoption, many SOA initiatives remain ‘pilots’
– SOA and governance issues is forcing business and IT groups to work more closely
– ESBs emerged in 2006. Expect a lot more happening with ESBs in 2007.
– SOA standards stalled in 2006. BPEL upgraded. WS-* went nowhere.
– SOA has increased company’s awareness of their processes and IT architecture
– Surprise that Microsoft is supporting the concept of SOA.
– 2007 may still not see big-bang SOA adoption. SOA is progressing incrementally.
– 2007 may be the year for SOA modeling
– Rather than customer-wrapped SOA legacy apps, vendor-supplied SOA offerings will become more standard.
