The move from mainframes to departmental minicomputers to desktop personal computers, the emergence of networking as a solution for distributed computing, the advent of databases and client server architectures — all these and more have threatened to change the way CEOs think and act with respect to information technology.
None more so than today’s great white hope — Service Oriented Architecture or SOA.
An interesting point of departure from the earlier paradigm shifts is that while most of the earlier developments happened because of the availability of the right technology at that point in time. SOA in some ways contradicts this paradigm because it is more of a business driven architectural concept rather than IT driven technical fad or a shrink wrapped product.
