We can focus on building services and supporting flexible composition of services and essentially we get the benefits of integration as a result of service composition.
Ron Schmelzer, a consultant with analyst firm ZapThink, just made a disturbing observation — the pool of new vendors in the enterprise software space seems to be drying up altogether.
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.
Acceleration is certainly a huge part of the value, But if we’re looking at the XML message.
SOA Implementation Roadmap