Many (probably most) organizations are using SOA to deliver internal IT benefits, while some people are thinking about using SOA to deliver business transformation and improved customer experience. I don't personally find the former (what I call SOA 1.0) very interesting, but I accept that many organizations will want to do a fair amount of this before they venture into what I think is the more exciting stuff (which I call SOA 2.0).
Of course I saw some useful parallels between Web 2.0 and SOA 2.0 - similar to what some people are calling Enterprise 2.0 or Enterprise Web 2.0. But my focus was not on a new version of SOA as technology, but on a new set of (more interesting) uses for essentially the same technology.
However, the term SOA 2.0 is now starting to be used (particularly by Gartner and Oracle) for a rather confusing technical reframing of SOA. Apparently SOA 2.0 now includes EDA. This surprises many well-informed commentators, who had always thought that SOA was event-driven anyway.
So now the SOA 2.0 meme has fallen into serious disrepute. See attacks by Mark Little and Neil Ward-Dutton, with further commentary by Paul Krill (InfoWorld) and Joe McKendrick (ZDNet).
Perhaps I should sue someone?
SOA 2.0 Blog Posts
- Initial Proposal (Oct 2005)
- Initial Reaction (Oct 2005)
- Self-Service (Oct 2005)
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