Jason Bloomberg, managing partner at consulting firm ZapThink, said that SOA has changed from being a market category for software and middleware companies to a set of best practices, and that this shift became prominent in the market towards the end of 2008. He said that SOA was always about best practices, but that the companies hoping to make money on the term had obscured this fact with lots of advertising dollars.

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