Lawson: You participated in a Briefings Direct Analyst podcast earlier this year on what to expect in 2010, and one of the things you discussed was “SOA plus other things?” What did you mean by that?

Bloomberg: It’s important to realize that SOA is really a rather loose collection of best practices. It’s not necessarily a well-defined list where you have some checklist of things to do SOA and if you miss one, you’re not doing SOA. What’s happening is architecture teams are incorporating SOA best practices into various other initiatives. It may not be identified as an SOA initiative. So we’re seeing a lot of SOA best practices in cloud computing and master data management and other areas, BPM, where the projects may not be identified as SOA projects, but they’re leveraging SOA best practices as, essentially, established architecture best practices.

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