Mike Meehan at SearchSOA.com has done some homework on the use of Web Oriented Architecture, and the IT folks in the field are fed up. Enough with the labels, they seem to be saying. And they raise excellent points. I for one am by no means wed to the “WOA” nomenclature. Several other industry analysts recently told me as much — “WOA is not the right term” — during a dinner at the IBM Impact event earlier this month. So what really counts is the concept of not waiting for legacy-abstracted, middleware-driven, investments-heavy SOA before seeking wider berth.
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WOA: An Acronym in Search of a Meaning
Posted by: Dana Gardner April 24, 2008 05:00 AMMike Meehan at SearchSOA.com has done some homework on the use of Web Oriented Architecture, and the IT folks in the field are fed up. Enough with the labels, they seem to be saying. And they raise excellent points. I for one am by no means wed to the “WOA” nomenclature. Several other industry analysts recently told me as much — “WOA is not the right term” — during a dinner at the IBM Impact event earlier this month. So what really counts is the concept of not waiting for legacy-abstracted, middleware-driven, investments-heavy SOA before seeking wider berth.