SOA and the Tar Pit of Irrelevancy (2009)

It is rare indeed that anyone looks around and tries to come up with a comprehensive strategy for application interoperability: you don’t have time for that – you’re a small company, and if you don’t get your software, you’ll go out of business. The myth of SOA sold by the big vendors is that you can create this massively strategic cathedral of enterprise architecture, but it always falls down in the real world because the COO (and CEO) can override the CIO (and his sidekick, the CTO). The J2EE standard essentially ran the server vendors out of the business of supplying just an application server.

Source: nealford.com