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Maybe I’m not understanding, but I don’t necessarily see what is so revolutionary about SOA. Bridging disparate apps with formatted data over a simple, standard network protocol is nothing new. This seems like all the hullaballo about info-bus messaging…

Still, I’m glad to see that companies are looking for developers to solve this problem, rather than shrink-wrap solutions. I guess the good thing about SOA is that it encourages companies to embrace heterogeneity and rely on competent developers rather than trying to enforce a “standarized” environment with costly (and usually counter-productive) shrink-wrap software.