Leading bank and investment-firm CIOs, IT directors, staff technology gurus and the like spoke February 11 at the New York City conference “Web Services/SOA on Wall Street.” Their theme could have been “SOA is not on Wall St. yet” but that’s probably good news for the supplier community that packed the conference with new technology value propositions. The slow uptake of SOA means the large systems suppliers such as IBM (IBM) and HP (HPQ) have not run away with all the services oriented architecture [SOA] business already.
Listening to the Wall St. information-technology [IT] gurus is important because they and their peers in The City and Switzerland and Singapore are usually two or more years ahead of the curve in terms of IT implementation. When it comes to investing in (or marketing) IT, finding out how it plays in Peoria first is not good advice. So in that light, where does SOA stand?
