SOA filling the Gaps

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...

In my Vendor's Survival posts I wrote about many leading vendors. Few posts were on Microsoft:  Will Microsoft survive until 2021? - revisited Will Microsoft survive until 2021? Vendors Survival: Will Microsoft Survive until 2018? I also posted about Vendors technologies, strategies and acquisitions related to their Long Term survival. The post  Microsoft's Skype acquisition: Warning Signs ahead is an example. Yesterday, there was a long Microsoft Azure Service Outage . The reason for the outage was a time miscalculation for a leap year .  A long Service Outage is not unique to Windows Azure's PaaS  platform. There were long Service Outage in services provided by other Cloud Computing vendors such as Amazon and Google . The outage has nothing to do with Microsoft's Long Term Survival probability.   The reason for the outage is related to Microsoft's Survival: It is an indication of a very poor Software  Quality Assurance . Yesterday Microsoft proved th...