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If It’s Wednesday It Must Be Vegas – Another SOA Story
By John | April 11, 2008
While cleaning up my Google alerts I noticed some poor soul trying to make sense of IBM’s SOA management stack at Impact in Vegas this week. On Twitter yesterday our good friend and top-notch analysts Coté was asking similar questions. Here is a mashup of some of my comments out in the blogoshpere on said subject.
- SOA+IBM=$$$ that is all you really need to know to understand the IBM SOA management stack.
- The SOA Management stack is extremely difficult to integrate and implement and very few service providers have the skills to deliver.
- The cost of the SOA management software stack is very high and the services are typically 3x the software.
- IBM’s version of SOA simplified … CTO buys cause IBM says Sandy says so .. a ..
SOA is a big circle that allows the CTO to tell the CEO … “A” goes into box “B” (i.e., the circle) and “C” comes out of “B” the circle.
- Trying to decipher the SOA idea guy vs. the SOA implementor question… my response is … It’s simple IBM sales is the idea guy, the CTO is the puppy dog who buys in, and the implementor is the poor smuck that needs to make it work.
If you are still confused see…
Topics: ibm, soa, tivoli | 2 Comments »
April 14th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I spent a year trying to convince a company I once worked for that SOA via a commercial entity was a Bad Idea ™ … funny enough – I convinced the software architect (after 1 year) … management on the other hand … puppies all the way …
I just wanted Axis2/Active MQ/Synapse … everyone thought I was insane – and as usual – I figured I was normal (and everyone else was insane).
Just before I left (principal was partially the reason) I had project managers telling me that the commercial solution was going to solve even code quality problems! Sales people sell and will tell you anything … I thought that was obvious to everyone?
April 14th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Great story…
You know what Spock says about sanity…
In an insane world the sane must appear insane…
Thanks
John