[Info-vax] Seasons Greetings

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Richard Maher wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> "Bill Gunshannon" <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote in message
> news:6s6lerF4fvhiU1 at mid.individual.net...
>> In article <495c3477$0$90271$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
>> Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>> Main, Kerry wrote:
>>>> Yep, I still maintain there is going to be a return to the basics as
>>>> Companies can no longer afford grandiose SOA / "latest rip-n-replace
>>>> craze of the month" distributed programming strategy developed by the
>>>> analyst / university / whoever theorists.
>>> Companies can not afford not to do SOA. It is pretty expensive not
>>> to reuse.
>> And you can't reuse without SOA?  I thought "re-use" was the Ada buzzword,
>> not the SOA buzzword.
> 
> I believe you're meant to forget about RPC, Sockets, MOM , or any other kind
> of middleware when discussing SOA. Java and SOAP is the order of the day
> with even RESTful services shunned by the purists.
> 
>>> SOA is most definitely not about replacing systems. You could argue
>>> that SOA is about not replacing systems.
>> Well, when you re-write all your COBOL in Java, sure sounds like replacing
>> to me.
> 

Gee!  Whatever happened to DCE????

The "buzzword of the moment" is just that.  Give it six months or a year 
and it will be history, replaced by the latest panacea!