SOA filling the Gaps

Two years ago I published a post titled: Will Apple Survive until 2021? Apple is not unique. I published other Vendors Long Term Survival posts e.g. Google , Microsoft , HP , Software AG , SUN , EMC . My conclusion was: " My answer is that the probability that it will not survive is higher than the probability that the other vendors (not including Software AG and obviously not including SUN) I discussed will not survive".  My habit is to Revisit, when a significant event occurs. Waze acquisition by Google is a significant event, which should need Anti-Trust clearance. Perhaps this event, is more significant for Apple than for Google . Apple's costly and unsuccessful Maps application is lagging behind Google Maps .  Many Web pages pointed out on two losers, who tried to acquire Waze and failed:Apple and Facebook . Perhaps, there is more than one loser, but The Loser  is not Facebook. Your guess is correct: it is Apple. Maps Business Value Proposition Smart...

Source: Wikipedia One of my favorite movies is Sergio Leone 's The Good The Bad and The Ugly .  No Moral considerations are included in The Good's , and the other two's considerations.  Many use this film name as titles to articles. They classify products or people to three categories: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. For example, about 15 years ago, when Object Oriented was not yet a mainstream methodology , I read an article about Object Oriented programming languages . It was written by PARC , a SmallTalk vendor. According to the Article The Good is Smalltalk, The Bad is COBOL and the Ugly is C++ .  In reality not always the Good survives. Ja va replaced SmallTalk due to its enhanced Scalability and better marketing. C++ and COBOL survived.  The Good The Good Customer, unlike the Customer who Knows Everything , knows that he does not know everything. He is able to estimate his knowledge boundaries: he knows what he knows and knows what he doe...