Have you heard what a certain software company has been saying about next-generation IT development and deployment strategies? There's this gem about Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): SOA "is not about a product or skill, but rather it's about style of how one comes up with a system." Or: SOA should allow "basic approaches [for] replacing or rewriting, depending on the particular business situation"?
These sound bites could very easily be coming from IBM, HP, BEA or Oracle -- but they came from Microsoft. Yet, at the November Dev Connections conference in Las Vegas, there were few, if any, utterances of the term "SOA."
