IT directors are increasingly interested in deploying service oriented architectures (SOAs) for more flexible IT infrastructures and this is beginning to affect their application purchasing decisions, according to a senior IBM executive.
Mike Borman, vice-president of worldwide sales at IBM's software group, said customer interest in SOAs had this year moved from theoretical discussions to practical investigations of how to develop SOA platforms.
IT chiefs understand how SOAs allow application components to be flexibly and quickly reused to better support changing business processes, he added. "People are now saying, 'I understand what SOA is and I know it brings benefits, but what do I do next?'" he said.
