I followed up with [Jason] Bloomberg recently to ask him what he meant by “SOA plus other things.” Here’s what he said: “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. … 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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