The post of the break was one by Joe McKendrick, who says, “SOA is integration. SOA is not integration. Simple as that.” In essence, he looks at some of the confusion around the value that SOA brings ...

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With all the attention that service-oriented architecture and Web services are getting, I thought I’d fast forward to a time when every organization has implemented SOA and Web services to some extent ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is generating a lot of buzz these days. In fact, according to a new AberdeenGroup benchmark report, “Enterprise Service Bus and SOA Middleware,” nine of every 10 ...

I seem to have hit a nerve with my last post "SOA vendors focus too much on integration and not enough on architecture." You can read the comments, but the reaction was: Vendors…no like (based on IP ...

Old-school programming languages like COBOL are arguably the most significant roadblock between mainframe and SOA harmony. It’s also a far more complicated language barrier than can be solved by ...

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Like it or not most mission critical processing still happens on a mainframe today. Mainframes literally run the business world. Unfortunately, most companies with systems older then ten years are ...

My ZDNet blogging colleague David Berlind talks about the "uncomputer," based on the fact that the computer as we know it is evolving into a set of APIs. Perhaps we can extend this logic and call ...

"All this money is going into ESBs and Web services, and they get a dozen or two integration projects going, but are they getting any business value out of that? I don't see it." -Anne Thomas Manes, ...

Everybody knows that service-oriented architecture is all about integration. Integrating departments, companies, government agencies, vendors, and customers is SOA’s sweet spot. What isn’t as often ...