Author: anderssv

This is exactly what I’m trying to fully understand at work. I’ll have to read up on the entire series at work tomorrow.

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? 😉

Clemens Vasters has a post where he questions the existence of SOA.

What’s different now is that it is easier, cheaper and likely more productive to create bridges between systems.

He confirms my suspicions. The tools makes it easier, but it’s just not a completely new architecture paradigm. And you bridge systems only when you need it, because it adds complexity.

Update: Roy Osherove joins in here. Straight on. 🙂