Several top global consultancies have recently unveiled large-scale investments in their service-oriented architecture offerings, in an attempt to attract some of the hype and the money swirling around SOA to their services business.
In July, Accenture announced it would pour $450m over the next three years into SOA, including the opening of a dedicated R&D lab. Hewlett-Packard followed suit in September with the opening of development centres in California, Singapore and India, part of the company's $500m investment in SOA. And IBM earlier this year said it would pump $1bn into SOA R&D efforts this year - in October the company opened SOA software centres in China and India.
