Comments on: SOA Versus Web 2.0? http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/04/27/soa-versus-web-20/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:50:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jeremiah http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/04/27/soa-versus-web-20/comment-page-1/#comment-1672 Jeremiah Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:06:00 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/04/27/soa-versus-web-20/#comment-1672 While I understand and appreciate both technologies, I don't understand the debate or the comparisons. I think that we should be talking about SOA *and* Web 2.0, discussing the areas where "Web 2.0" (what an awful term!) technologies can address Enterprise problems (haven't seen many yet). SOA has grown out of the desire/need to handle specific problems that arise from building complex, interrelated systems. This is a different problem space than that which has given rise to Web 2.0 technologies. People who do not understand this distinction are ill equipped to discuss SOAs. What irritates me about Web 2.0 evangelists is their "technology looking for an application" mentality. This attitude is what led to the .com idiocy of thinking that anything to do with the Web could do everything from information sharing to taking the chickweed out of your lawn. The Web 2.0 hype has me feeling deja vu all over again. While I understand and appreciate both technologies, I don’t understand the debate or the comparisons.

I think that we should be talking about SOA and Web 2.0, discussing the areas where “Web 2.0″ (what an awful term!) technologies can address Enterprise problems (haven’t seen many yet).

SOA has grown out of the desire/need to handle specific problems that arise from building complex, interrelated systems. This is a different problem space than that which has given rise to Web 2.0 technologies. People who do not understand this distinction are ill equipped to discuss SOAs.

What irritates me about Web 2.0 evangelists is their “technology looking for an application” mentality. This attitude is what led to the .com idiocy of thinking that anything to do with the Web could do everything from information sharing to taking the chickweed out of your lawn. The Web 2.0 hype has me feeling deja vu all over again.

]]> By: Jeff http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/04/27/soa-versus-web-20/comment-page-1/#comment-1670 Jeff Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:25:05 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/04/27/soa-versus-web-20/#comment-1670 sounds a lot like client/server to me... with a bunch of new buzzwords to replace "4gl", "objects", and "RAD" sounds a lot like client/server to me… with a bunch of new buzzwords to replace “4gl”, “objects”, and “RAD”

]]> By: Manoj Ranaweera http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/04/27/soa-versus-web-20/comment-page-1/#comment-1669 Manoj Ranaweera Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:19:54 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/04/27/soa-versus-web-20/#comment-1669 Jeff, you are probably aware by now that ebdex plans to bring an EIPP product into market as a SaaS solution in Q2/3 06. We have developed the system using SOA, which allows re-use of services. I am not a techie (forgive me!!), but my understanding is that this allows presentation, application and database layers to be independent. The bottom line is we will be able to switch from one database to another in the future to support our growth forecasts. I would therefore not quite right off SOA. Regards, Manoj Jeff, you are probably aware by now that ebdex plans to bring an EIPP product into market as a SaaS solution in Q2/3 06. We have developed the system using SOA, which allows re-use of services. I am not a techie (forgive me!!), but my understanding is that this allows presentation, application and database layers to be independent. The bottom line is we will be able to switch from one database to another in the future to support our growth forecasts. I would therefore not quite right off SOA. Regards, Manoj

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