SOA filling the Gaps

On March 23th 2009 I presented in the Israeli Systems Analyst Conference. The topic: SOA a means for Leveraging Business development in Recession?

In July 2008 I published a post in my Vendor Survival series. In the post titled Will SUN Microsystems Survive until 2018? I argued that SUN will not survive and named IBM , HP and EMC as companies which may think of SUN as target for acquisition. It looks like the recession shortened the time frame, and now according to Bloomberg I BM is in a process of examining acquisition of SUN . According to Bloomberg, The purchase would give IBM access to customers loyal to the Sun brand. Bloomberg adds that Sun counts General Electric Co . and General Motors Corp . among its customers. Servers, which run networks and Web sites, account for almost half Sun’s total sales, General Motors Corp is a company which was heart badly during the recession. No wonder that SUN was also heart and is an immediate acquisition target. Zdnet's Larry Dignan post states that the acquisition makes sense and it is a question of IBM's acquiring SUN as a company vs. IBM acquiring SUN in part...

A s mentioned in my post ESB for an Orphan , Business & IT alignment is one of SOA 's Value Propositions. Do we need also to change the name of Information Technology (IT) to another name reflecting IT's new role as Business related technology? George F. Colony , Forrester Research founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer thinks it should be changed to Business Technology (BT) . About three years ago, he posted his view in Forrester Research's Web site and initiated a very interesting discussion. Forrester's analysts and other IT or BT experts presented their views and their comments on George Colony's view. Some participants agreed with him, while other suggested other new names replacing IT. Surely, some participants thought IT should remain the name for IT. I do think that the issue was not resolved and therefore I am posting again my opinion. Comments are welcomed. My Opinion titled: Mind the Gap not the Name I read Ge...