• To: "'Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)'" <len.bullard@i...>,"'bryan rasmussen'" <rasmussen.bryan@g...>
• Subject: RE: Re: Major Historical SOA Milestone Today
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 21:54:06 +0100
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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> The focal point of SOA is when one decomposes a business into requests
> for services by type regardless of implementation.   That is why an
> object oriented architecture is not an SOA. 

Well "decomposing a business into requests for services by type regardless
of implementation" sounds exactly like what we wre trying to do when I was
working on IT architectures in the 1980s, and we called it object oriented
then. But perhaps we were just trying to be fashionable.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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