It's been taken more or less as an article of faith that you can't get SOA in a box, and that the vendors who have been trying to package and offer it as such have been fishing for easy......

Sometimes the easiest way to describe something to non-technical people is to leave the technical bits out of your description and just talk about the functionality. I personally feel this way about...

Mike Kavis at ITToolbox has a good article up on his approach to "selling" SOA approaches to executives. As you might expect if you have ever done any of this sort of lobbying, it revolves...

So we have seen advice recently on conducting a revolution over the IT department, and now we're getting advised on how to conduct guerilla SOA operations. It's a wild IT world out there, I...

I just noticed that this blog didn't have an SOA category-serious problem in today's enterprise IT environment. So I added one and will be christening it with this post (also changed...