RE: [soa-rm] Disappointing podcast on SOA RMs

["Chiusano, Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

I know Dave very well - he has actually written very positively of our
RM in the past (while it was in process). It's quite possible that he
decided to focus on The Open Group's work because it is more recent. I
will see him in a few weeks as he is coming to Booz Allen to give a
presentation to my team, and I will try to mention it to him.

Joe

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey A. Estefan [mailto:jeffrey.a.estefan@jpl.nasa.gov] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 5:26 PM
To: soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [soa-rm] Disappointing podcast on SOA RMs

SOA-RM TC Colleagues,

I have to say, this was a disappointing podcast from David Linthicum:
http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/linthicum/archives/2007/02/what_is_a_soa_r.ph
p

There was absolutely no mention of our work and the OASIS SOA-RM formal
standard.  He did mention the debate that centered around The Open
Group's effort to define a SOA reference architecture and referenced the
following
article:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/realworldsoa/archives/2007/02/open_group_deb
a.html

One troublesome item of note is that David blended the notions of
"reference model" with "reference architecture," which we all know are
not synonymous. 
And the podcast diverged into a discussion comparing and contrasting SOA
with EA (Enterprise Architecture), probably based on the fact that
debate on 
The Open Group SOA RA work was taken in the context of EA.
Unfortunately, 
too many people don't know that EA really is and that fact that EA is
not an architectural style or architectural paradigm like SOA is but
rather that EA is an essential element of IT governance and is used as
an strategic planning tool used to help make IT investment decisions.
And that it is comprised of a current ("as-is") state, a desired target
state ("to-be"), together with a transition plan to help define how to
migrate from the current state to the target state.  And that it should
be updated on annually.

Anyway, I responded to David's podcast but don't know if it was lost in
cyber-ether.  Perhaps I'll try a direct e-mail.  You can find out more
on David's website at:
http://linthicumgroup.com/

And if any of you know David personally, I'd encourage you to contact
him and help build some advocacy around open, industry-standard SOA RMs
and to help distinguish between RMs and RAs.

Regards...

 - Jeff E.