In his role as vice president of SOA products webMethods/Software AG, Miko Matsumura, has been traveling across North America and Europe talking about service-oriented architecture (SOA) as well as teaching in the SOA Master Class that he helped launch last winter with the ZapThink LLC analysts to address the SOA knowledge gap. At the beginning of 2007, we talked to Matsumura about what he expected the year would bring for SOA. Two calendar quarters later, we wondered what he is seeing so far. One of the trends is a bifurcation of the service-oriented approach into enterprise-wide business alignment, which he calls “big SOA,” and more modest departmental type projects, he calls “little SOA.”

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