SOA filling the Gaps

More than 10 years ago I was invited by Oracle Distributor or Oracle Israel (I do not remember if an Oracle's local branch was already established) to a dramatic announcement by Larry Ellison . Tel-Aviv was one of the cities in which you can watch it in real time. Oracle in cooperation with Sun announced the age of Network Computing. It was a good show. Larry Ellison broke a PC demonstrating that Microsoft 's Fat Client applications and data were lost. He also broke a cheaper Network Computer (NC) and demonstrated that nothing was lost after using another NC for connecting to the Web . Network Computing was immature. It took some years until Google 's applications as well as other Web 2.0 Services vendors' products were used and more than 10 years until S aaS is going Mainstream and Cloud Computing services are used for some enterprise applications. Oracle and Sun anti-Microsoft campaign continued with J2EE vs. .Net wars. However, few years afterwar...

After vacation of three weeks (without any posts in my blog), I read an interesting article in The Enterprise Architecture Online User Group site. The article is about Experience and Enterprise Architecture . The article's title is: Can Enterprise architects be young? The opinion of the article composer is: "So, every time that I see a young gentleman who claims to be an enterprise architect or enterprise architect expert, I simply don't believe him". SOA is a style of Enterprise Architecture (EA). In most cases, SOA is composing only a part of enterprise architecture, especially in the long journey of transformation from older architectures. Therefore EA considerations explained in the article are applicable to SOA too. I would paraphrase the article's conclusion and say: Every time that I see a young gentleman who claims to be a SOA architect or SOA architect expert, I simply don't believe him.