SOA filling the Gaps

LinkedIn headquarters on Sterlin Court in Mount View California source: Wikipedia Microsoft and LinkedIn announced on 13th June that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Linkedin for 196 USDs per share in an all-cash transaction valued 26.2 billions . On 2011 Microsoft acquired Skype. I had seen Warning Signs ahead . Will the agreed acquisition of LinkedIn stimulate new Warning signs? On 2013 Microsoft  acquired Nokia  in order to compete in the Smartphones market. Microsoft is not a significant player in the  Smart phones market. Will Microsoft fail, as well, in the Social Networks  market? When Steve Ballmer stepped down as the CEO of Microsoft I updated my Vendors Survival post about Microsoft .  Almost a year afterward I revisited my forecast   and I was more optimistic. The reason for my optimism was Satya Nadella's new strategy: Cloud First.  Will L...

Electronic Social Networking Services like Facebook are very popular.The distinction between Social  Networks services and similar Business services like Linkedin are not clear. Businesses use Facebook for commercial purposes and sometimes Linkedin users use it for social purposes. The identity of services such as Twitter is not clear as well: it is used for commercial and for social purposes.  Usage of Social Networking Services in an Enterprise context is not as simple as using it in a Consumer context.   Google's Steve Yege's post  published incidentally to an external Google+ circle instead of internal circle (including only Google's employees), is an illustration of issues facing an Enterprise using a Social Networking Service. The differences between Enterprise Social Networking Services are similar to the differences between SOA Services (Enterprise context) and Mashups (Consumer context): Management and Security are essential in the Enterprise cont...