RIP SOA
November 6th, 2008 by Alex Neihaus
Over the last couple of days, my Google Alert for SOA has been overloaded with stories about Gartner declaring SOA dead. Today, Loraine Lawson blogged a good summary of the “story.”
This is too good to be true, so herewith, our top 10 reasons Gartner decided to drive a stake through the heart of SOA right now:
10. Gartner is about to publish a new hype cycle entitled How COBOL will propel 21st-century application development.
9. Who needs SOA when Microsoft’s “M” language will be embedded in Office 2015?
8. Party time! Now we don’t have to answer so many freakin’ complicated questions about something as squishy as an application “architecture.”
7. It’s time to move on to advising clients on the intricacies of deploying the BlackBerry or iPhone for enterprise applications.
6. BPMSs will replace all developers. Now, business analysts can draw whatever they like, push a mouse button and, voila, services-based apps for nuthin’.
5. Enterprise architects have been told to actually produce new applications.
4. Gartner is just plain sick of using someone else’s term for a technology. SOA will return next season, but we have to rebrand it. How about ”G-whiz-SOA?”
3. There are no more enterprise architects in Icelandic banks, so those client meetings in the hot springs ain’t happening this winter.
2. Didn’t we design Bear Stearns’ enterprise architecture?
….and the number one reason Garnter decided to kill SOA right now…drum roll, please, Paul, is…
1. Our clients have stopped talking about SOA; they’re just doing it with a new generation of tools like ActiveVOS, darn them.
Tags: gartner, progonstications
