And just after my post on if SOA does exist I see this article on the benefits of SOA.
The company hasn’t calculated potential cost savings from the shift to an SOA-based application development model. But Poulter noted that using Web services to integrate applications over the past two years has been 60% to 70% cheaper than traditional hard-coded integration.
I don’t understand how that can be. Maybe I’m stupid, but I really don’t understand how using something like webservices will save you 60%-70% over anything else. What was the alternative? Assembler? 😉