It starts out with the glow of romance and ends up with a reality that while it is far from perfect, it doesn't mean it can't be made to work.
As the lead for Aberdeen's fact-based research on SOA, the analyst looks at data he has gathered from a thousand-plus companies and concludes that if 2005 was the year of SOA romance, by the end of 2006, the honeymoon is over. The promise of SOA cost-savings remains its biggest lure, he said, looking over the research he has gathered during six trips out into the field where he visited IT professionals who are actually trying to make SOA work.
"The cost of integrating applications is roughly 40 percent of the IT budget," Kastner said. "That's 40 percent of a $1.3 trillion global IT budget. It's just an enormous factor in overall costs."
