ZapThink recently published what may be the most frustrating column about SOA I’ve read to date – and I read a lot of frustrating SOA pieces. This article even frustrated Sam the hamster, whose cage is next to my desk, because I woke him up yelling, “Well, what’s the point if you’re going to do it that way?”

I thought the piece was another in a series of recent articles on how economical SOA can be — a topic tackled recently by eWeek’s Channel Insider and David Linthicum for Software Development Times.

The ZapThink article certainly starts out along those lines. In a nutshell, ZapThink noticed back in 2002 that traditional middleware-based integration generates “unpredictable spikes in cost” whenever business requirements change. They even drew a nifty Integration Cost Curve to explain this relationship.

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