Quote from Blue Titan

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

This really hits home for this TC:

"Would-be adopters of SOA, warns eWEEK Labs, should not underestimate 
their need for strong technical leaders who are able to achieve and 
communicate such a perspective.

That big-picture view of the business-and recognition of its inevitable 
change and continuing heterogeneity-is essential to avoid a false 
definition of SOA goals. It's not success, emphasized Blue Titan 
Software Inc.'s Frank Martinez, to construct a system based on service 
definitions and interfaces if that system still has all the problems of 
previous approaches to application integration.

What makes Martinez optimistic is the shift he said he sees from 
customers thinking about services as an interoperability solution to 
thinking about service orientation in broader terms as an "evolvability" 
aid."

The last paragraph places emphasis on a mechanism to align thinking of 
SOA amongst top architects.

Duane


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