10 February 2007

One more SOA-definition: "a mess waiting to happen"

While editing our forthcoming SOA-book (german) I found a nice definition of SOA by Jim Kobielus in a Network-World article:

"...SOA also is a mess waiting to happen.
By encouraging widespread reuse of scattered software components, SOA threatens to transform the enterprise network into a complex, sprawling unmanageable mesh."


He gives this definition in the context for his call-for-governance...