SOA filling the Gaps

Dovel Technologies is buying Zapthink . It is the first time I read about Dovel.  Unlike Dovel, Zapthink is well known to me. As a SOA expert, I read Zapthink's analysis of SOA and other Architectural topics as well as short articles named ZapFlash .  SOA is Zapthink's major field of expertise. The small company headed by Ronald Schmelzer and Jason Bloomberg provides SOA training and certification, SOA Consulting Services and SOA Research. Schmelzer and Bloomberg's work reveals deep understanding and vast knowledge of SOA. The challenges facing small Analysts and Consultants are incomparable to challenges facing a lot larger company.  Like small software vendors many of the small Consulting and/or Market Analysis companies will not survive. The  circumstances are similar to the circumstances of smaller software vendors described in my post titled:  Vendors Survival Guide: Supermarket Grocery and Kiosk   as well as in other Vendors Sur...