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The Global SOA Conspiracy
Every
school-age child knows the story of “The Emperor’s New Suit.”
In this story, one lone child has the courage to acknowledge that the emperor
is not wearing any clothes. Like in the famous children’s story, many
people are scared to say anything negative about service
oriented architectures. All we hear is that we need to stay the course.
Now is the time to admit that SOA-based
applications don’t make economic sense.
This story is perpetrated by a global conspiracy of government-business consultants bent on growing a global SOA empire. Government-business consultants are not giving small business executives what they want. Government-business consultants don’t provide information technology (IT) investment options which solve discrete business problems. Instead, they are trying to convince small business executives that they have to take an enterprise architecture viewpoint and over engineer every IT investment. Read Complete Article
The Official OASIS Semantic Execution Environment TC Press Release
The official OASIS press release for the Semantic Execution Environment (SEE) Technical Committee is now available. The SEE TC will be an effort by OASIS members to define semantic interoperability architecture using web services. Semantic interoperability in theory will allow computers to explicitly talk and understand each other. This is a problem that dates back to the early 1970’s.
Concentrating solely on semantic interoperability using web services doesn't’t really address the concerns of small businesses. Interoperability is a major concern of organizations with large portfolios of legacy systems and huge amounts of sunk cost. Small companies don’t have either of these problems. They are constrained by resources. They have to pick their projects very carefully. So, concentrating solely on semantic interoperability using web services doesn't’t help produce the next generation of productivity. Read Additional Comments
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