A Google+ post-gone-viral by Google engineer Steve Yegge includes both insightful and at times scathing observations about how his employer needs to learn a lesson or

Those IT organizations that move to cloud computing are moving to SOA (service-oriented architecture), whether they understand it or not. Hear me out: Private and public clouds often rely on APIs for their functionality, which are typically Web services that can be combined and recombined into solutions. The result: SOA, at its essence.

In a move that seemed like a veritable blast from the past, the World Wide Web Consortium has announced that a bunch of Web services technologies, including SOAP (Simple

If you listen to industry discussion of SOA (service-oriented architecture), you are likely to get the impression that SOA is best thought of as a technical approach for application integration. The reality is that SOA is much more. According to Forrester's Q1 2011 Global Application Architecture, Design, And Portfolios -- SOA And Beyond Online Survey, organizations that use SOA for strategic business transformation must be on to something because they are much more satisfied with SOA than those that do not use SOA for strategic business transformation.

In these days of YouTube, I'm always extra careful about what I say when I speak at conference. I know that statements can be taken out of context, and saying something silly, stupid, or factually incorrect can haunt you for months. Evidently, at least some of the folks at EMC VMware are not worried about that.