SOA filling the Gaps

I will start my post by quoting Garner Group 's Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects 2Q07 first Caution on Sun Microsystems : "Sun's sales force was ill-prepared for the SeeBeyond acquisition, which  significantly hurt SeeBeyond's momentum. The sales force has been trained, but Sun must rebuild momentum in a market where growth is flattening". In sumary, according to Gartner Group Sun sales force was not prepared for the SeeBeyond acquisition based on Seebeyond's SOA products. As a result SeeBeyond's momentum in that market disappeared and should be rebuilt (Sun lost momentum in the SOA market). Why is this quote from the Research Note, which I read freely from BEA' s Web Site, so important? It is important because it describes a Pattern. Similar statements could be written about previous Sun initiatives and acquisitions: 1. Sun invented and built the Java programming lan...