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As I read David Linthicum's post on SOA vendors focus too much on integration... and not enough on architecture, this really clarified one of the messes we've gotten into with SOA.  The problem is "architecture." ...

Today, Software AG announced the strategic OEM partnership between our two companies.  What makes this especially noteworthy is that, up until now, if someone wanted to...

Glen Daniels added a good comment on one of my last posts.  Glen's point was that in a financial market everyone tries to achieve their own goals, but it's different in an enterprise - an enterprise is more...

Joe McKendrick wrote an interesting post on WOA winning the personality contest versus SOA.

That got me to thinking: If we need governance for SOA, do we need it for WOA also?

Some  would argue that it's the complexity...

Stephan Lahanas posted on the top-10 reasons SOA projects fail.  I think many of his points are very valid (especially the one about how it's the business that matters, not the standards or...

Todd Biske wrote a good post the other day that focused on how governance doesn't mean command and control.

Let me add a few important things to the discussion though: no amount of "management by consensus" will make...