SOA filling the Gaps

The SOA Pilot is a crucial part of the journey to SOA. The result of an unsuccessful pilot could be the end of the SOA initiative. Therefore you have to plan for successful pilot in order to transform the enterprise to SOA based enterprise. However, the analysis of a SOA Pilot is not as simple as described above. For instance, a well known SOA expert, Ronald Schmelzer , Zapthink 's co-founder wrote a Zapflash titled: The Best SOA Pilots Don't Get the Services Right . Ronald Schmelzer's thesis is that it is not important to get things right from the beginning because this kind of attempt will surely fail: neither the Business people nor the IT experts knowledge of the specific enterprise Business and IT context is perfect. In addition, the enterprise business requirements are very dynamic, so the probability of significant changes during Architecture planning, Services analysis, design and build is high. Therefore he argues that Agility is the most important...

Viacom 's lawsuit against YouTube is a demonstration of Web 2.0 issues described briefly in my Web 2.0 for Dummies posts .It also demonstrates Web 2.0 fragility. The main issues behind the lawsuit are copyrights and trust. According to Viacom, YouTube violated its copyrights by presenting videos including Viacom's copyrighted material. YouTube answer was that they do not present intentionally copyrighted videos or part of videos. The written guidelines in their Web site explain clearly that community members should not place copyrighted material in that Website. The company also provides a menu item (flag) for use by community members for alerting it about copyrights violations. The lawsuit reminds me another copyrights lawsuit I was involved in as an expert witness. Two of the founders of an unsuccessful Israeli startup left the company and establishes another startup. The second startup's product was a real success story. The other co-founders of the first...

I will start my post by quoting Garner Group 's Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects 2Q07 first Caution on Sun Microsystems : "Sun's sales force was ill-prepared for the SeeBeyond acquisition, which  significantly hurt SeeBeyond's momentum. The sales force has been trained, but Sun must rebuild momentum in a market where growth is flattening". In sumary, according to Gartner Group Sun sales force was not prepared for the SeeBeyond acquisition based on Seebeyond's SOA products. As a result SeeBeyond's momentum in that market disappeared and should be rebuilt (Sun lost momentum in the SOA market). Why is this quote from the Research Note, which I read freely from BEA' s Web Site, so important? It is important because it describes a Pattern. Similar statements could be written about previous Sun initiatives and acquisitions: 1. Sun invented and built the Java programming lan...