SOA filling the Gaps

Steve Jobs Source: Wikipedia In previous posts I classified Customers e.g Customers Typology: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Part 3: The Ugly  and Customers Typology: The Social . In other posts I classified Consultants e.g Consultants Typology: The Consultant who knows everything . The post   Mangers Typology: The Captive was the first post classifying Managers.  The Professional manager is an expert. His expertise, knowledge and understanding in the subject matter could be better than the knowledge and understanding of the employees he is managing.  They would ask for his professional opinion and guidance and will not disagree with his technical decisions. Is the Professional a good manager? There is no definitive answer to the question above. The answer depends upon the manager's skills and characteristics and the circumstances.  a personal example I was a successful manager in the first time I was promoted to a management position. ...

Picture source: Wikipedia The answer yes seems as an obvious answer to the question in the title of this post.    Apple , formerly Apple Computers, is very successful company. The following articles are glances about how successful it is:  Apple Is Now Worth More Than Intel And Microsoft Combined   Apple unseats Microsoft as world’s biggest tech company Apple now 4th largest phone maker worldwide Even by reading only the articles' titles you will be impressed.  It is the mindshare leader in the growing markets of Smart Phones and Tablets , as well as the Music devices market.  Anyone's ten years predictions could be totally wrong. I am not an exception.  However, I already asked similar question about companies such as Microsoft , Google , SUN , HP , Software AG and EMC  . Yes was not my answer to this question for any of the companies cited above. For some of them the answer was Probably Yes . However, ...