A report from Research 2.0 describes the current use of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as experimental. The research firm's report of May 31, 2007 predicts that SOA will be embraced as mainstream technology by the year 2015. Packaged SOA applications will become market disruptors for companies such as Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.com, the report speculates. Forester reported in a study that 21 percent of North American and European (NA-EU) enterprises said they'll adopt SOA in 2007. It also reported that 22 percent of Asia Pacific enterprises and 14 percent of NA-EU small-to-medium businesses plan to adopt SOA in 2007. However, the authors of the report, "Planned SOA Usage Grows Faster Than Actual SOA Usage," think that those figures may be optimistic because of results from an earlier survey. In 2006, 14 percent of NA-EU enterprises said they'd adopt SOA, but only two percent actually did.
