So is SOA just something mainly concerning IT strategist, top management or the programming boys? John Burke, an analyst at New York City based Nemertes Research believes otherwise. He sees it as having a major impact on systems administrators and other data center staff members.
"The shift to a componentized, SOA world will have significant effects on how servers are provisioned and managed, especially by breaking down even further the association between particular servers and particular applications," says Burke. "Server managers are aware of this, even if it is not currently affecting them, and even if they don't expect it to in the near term."
