[Is 'SOA' becoming a word?] RE: [soa-rm] Service Consumer in RM or not?

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

Briefly revisiting this June 8th posting to our list, where Michael
Stiefel suggested using "SOA" as a word rather than as an acryonym (a la
SOAP). Check out the following recent ZDNet SOA blog posting:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=470
"Is 'SOA' becoming a word?"

Joe

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Stiefel [mailto:development@reliablesoftware.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:16 PM
> To: John Harby; soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Service Consumer in RM or not?
> 
> That is why perhaps using SOA instead of Service Oriented 
> Architecture might be a partial solution.
> 
> Michael
> 
> At 11:44 AM 6/8/2005, John Harby wrote:
> >The difficult aspect is that everyone and their brother is 
> now used to 
> >the SOA buzzword. If we start inventing more do we run the risk of 
> >confusing the audiences and losing adoption?
> >
> >On 6/8/05, Francis McCabe <fgm@fla.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > > Since SOA was itself a buzz word invented by an analyst, 
> perhaps we 
> > > can also coin a new buzzword :) Frank
> > >
> > > On Jun 7, 2005, at 12:52 PM, Duane Nickull wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Chiusano Joseph wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> - A Service Orientation Reference Model (SO RM) - that 
> is, don't 
> > > >> label this as "SOA RM" but rather "SO RM"
> > > >> - A SOA Reference Architecture (SOA RA)  rather than a 
> single SOA 
> > > >> Reference Model (SOA RM).
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > > Joseph:
> > > >
> > > > Our intent (as expressed in our charter) has always been to do 
> > > > this.  The only difference is the change of the name 
> from SOA RM 
> > > > to SO RM.
> > > >
> > > > Pro of renaming to SO RM:
> > > >
> > > > - more accurate reflection of what it really is.
> > > >
> > > > Con of renaming to SO RM:
> > > >
> > > > - losing the correlation with SOA.  We are trying to define SOA.
> > > > If we change the name, it may be perceived as defining 
> something 
> > > > different which means we are in the same place as we 
> started when 
> > > > we finish.
> > > > - People may not reconcile the work with SOA which is 
> the primary 
> > > > goal of the TC
> > > >
> > > > If there is a desire to explore this further, I would ask that 
> > > > someone who is a voting member please ask that this be 
> put up for 
> > > > a web ballot.
> > > >
> > > > Duane
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> 
> 
>