SOA filling the Gaps

When HP intended to acquire EDS  in 2008, I wrote a post titled: Vendors Survival: Will HP Survive Until 2018? - HP's EDS First Take .  The prefix implies that the post was not the only post about Vendors Survival. Other posts discuss future survival of other vendors such as Microsoft , Apple , Google , SUN and EMC .  The optimistic view was that HP will become a co-leader of the Outsourcing market together with IBM (The market leader). The idea was to get more revenues from the profitable Service market, because Hardware commoditization reduced Hardware profitability.    However, my opinion was, that the optimistic view was less realistic than other scenarios.  It looks like my prediction was not far from reality. HP Layoffs in 2012 On May, 23 2012, HP announced that it is cutting 27,000 jobs after posting a profit decline of 31%in the second quarter of 2012.  Many of the jobs cut where former EDS employees .  The Case of General M...

Seasonal Greetings to all of you. It is time to summarize 2009. As far is SOA is concerned, the most important developments in 2009 are: 1.  " SOA is dead Long Live Services" a post in Anne Thomas Mannes's blog. Anne Thomas Mannes is a Burton Group Vice President and Research Director majored in SOA. This post his blog post is important because it brought forward the mistakes in many SOA implementations and the misuse of the three letters S O A. It also catalyzed many responses of leading expert disagreeing with her opinions.  Most of the experts participated in ebizQ SOA forum agreed with me that "SOA is Dead" was important. You can read all the answers submitted to the question:  What Developments in SOA Are You Most Thankful For This Year? 2.     SOA is becomes the dominant paradigm SOA is real. The term Services is used very often. Most surveys show that at least 50% of the organizations are already implementing SOA. Most of the other en...