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SOA: Adoption Drops in 2008
SOA adoption peaked in 2007. Since the beginning of 2008, there has been a significant decline in the number of new adopters. The reasons: companies either viewed the leap as one they we’re prepared for in terms of IT skills, there really was no solid business case for them to do it, or there wasn’t even enough understanding of SOA to even come up with a business case. That’s the result of a recent survey by Gartner on global SOA adoption and reported in InfoWorld.
Another big reason could be the drop is the economy. Budgets are down and companies are in more of a defensive posture, maintaining their current operations, rather than breaking ground with new initiatives.
Where SOA is being adopted, most adopters are applying it to new installations, even though a lot of the hype around SOA revolves around its usefulness in breaking open accessibility to legacy systems. This indicates that many of the adopters are still in experimentation mode and not fully confident in applying the new technology to their existing systems.
The Gartner report notes that many people are still cautious, and in the current business climate, Gartner recommends the cautious approach as a good one. Their advice is to hunker down for the next year and start mapping a strategy to follow up on then.
