“Basically, IBM has gotten the SOA gospel and is really taking it to heart in the way they build their products and deliver their services from here on forward,” said Ronald Schmelzer, an analyst with ZapThink LLC of Waltham, Mass.

“Rather than announcing a single product or service, this SOA announcement kicks off a major strategy for IBM around what they see is a combined effort from multiple product and service groups to meet the increasing demand for loosely coupled, distributed, standards-based computing that SOA represents.”

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