SOA filling the Gaps

On January 05, 2009 Burton Group 's analyst Ann Thomas Manes published her famous blog post S OA is Dead; Long Live Services.  She arguied that " SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM , SaaS , Cloud Computing , and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”. Recently, Burton Group published a Research note titled:  The Lazarus Effect: SOA Returns . According to this Research Note, SOA demised during the Recession, but SOA is returning now after the recession. In Burton Group's words:  "As the global economy struggles back to health and organizations seek to redefine themselves and make strategic investments, many organizations are reconsidering SOA". Unfortunately, I did not read Frank Herbert 's and Bill Ransom 's Science Fiction book titled The Lazarus Effect , so I could only imagine that it is about recoveri...