There’s a lot of talk about SOA and WOA led by ZDNet Blogger, Analyst and great guy Dana Gardner.

WOA is a very fast paced “Web 2.0-ish” way to innovate and mash up concepts quickly. And the massive power of it is that you are standing on the shoulders of Giants who have built “Social Utilities” and amazing Web-Oriented APIs so that you can use astonishingly simple expressions and get vasty goodness (technical term) very easily. (more…)

One of the coolest (or scariest, depending on your perspective) things about SOA is that it requires a dramatically different approach to application design, development and operation. Sure, Enterprise IT is no stranger to periodic paradigm shifts in how applications are built. After all, we have all been through other ‘revolutions’ in the past - Client-Server computing, Web-based applications, application servers etc. Like these shifts in the past, SOA is now leading us to the next generation of application design and development.

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