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…)

Since my post “SOA is Over the Sky is Falling“, I hear there’s rumors on the Internets that the chattering classes are getting impatient with limited SOA success stories. The key example is Analyst and Uber Thought Leader Anne Thomas Manes who recently noted in her blog:

It has become clear to me that SOA is not working in most organizations.

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