One of those analysts is ZapThink’s Ron Schmelzer, who opined that “we never recommend companies buy more integration middleware. That’s the tightly coupled world people need to get away from.” Supporting Web services does not automatically lead to SOA, but Schmeltzer observes that “when they say service-oriented, they mean they’ve got Web services interfaces,” he said. “We’re not talking about architectures of agility here. They apply so much glue to infrastructure they end up gluing customers in place.”

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