”This movement toward application modernization has a lot of legs,” says Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst and founder of ZapThink. ”A lot of companies are still using client-server applications and mainframe applications that never made the transition to the Web. Some of these applications command a high cost of ownership, because they lack flexibility and they use proprietary technologies. Now is the right time [to transition those apps], and SOA is the right strategy.”

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