Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the natural evolution of software- it is the industrialization of software. The justification for Client/Server and SOA are the same: Customers want a flexible infrastructure for computing that makes the process of change easier. With any major change in approach to computing there are complexities, risks, and directions that must be addressed. I break down the key issues that determine the success or failure of the migration to SOA into three categories: Political, Business, Technical and Nonpolitical.”]
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