Ron Schmelzer
Ron Schmelzer
companies die term weird
All of these companies are piling into this real weird bandwagon. ESB is a problematic term that was sickly in 2005 and I think it's going to die in 2006.
commit companies continuing matter past stage stick stories success time whether
This is just continuing the momentum. We are past the stage where SOA is hype. It's the right time for SOA. Now it's a matter whether or not it will stick and whether companies will commit to it. Success stories like this help.
context field impose
There's always a context to data. Even when a field is blank, different applications impose different assumptions about what that means.
central data fact provide raises service
Do you divvy it up, or do you provide a central service? SOA raises the fact that data is heterogeneous.
indication market security
It's another indication of the market maturing. Clustered security is pretty advanced.
bear believe broaden choose competing deeper faced instead prospects trying year
Faced with the prospects of competing with much-larger vendors, we believe that many will choose acquisition instead of trying to broaden their own capabilities or find deeper pockets. 2006 will bear out to be the year of super-consolidation for the SOA markets.
appliance beyond broaden consider coverage entry heat network oracle platform simply software space turn
With IBM's entry into the network appliance space for SOA, we think this will turn up the heat on the other platform vendors such as BEA and Oracle to consider how they too will broaden their coverage of SOA beyond simply software and professional services.
access choke controls critical data imposing manage means point problem solve transform
We used to solve data integration by imposing controls at critical choke points. SOA eliminates these choke points, so I now have a data integration problem everywhere. That means every data access point has to be able to transform and manage data.