Is Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) really architecture- June 3, 2004 Being service oriented (SO) is, and continues to prove itself to be, a valuable and elegant approach for applications as well as enterprise architectures. However I am a bit baffled by why an architecture which is service oriented is being branded a new kind of architecture. An architecture may or may not be service oriented but the underlying architecture exists separately. My search for clarity started by trying to pin down a definition for Service Orientated Architecture..http://blogs.msdn.com/stcohen/archive/2004/06/03/147881.aspx Enterprise Architecture increases project risk .. but it's worth it.- June 2, 2004 I am a big fan of risk management in all projects. It is however generally rare to see risks identified when developing an enterprise architecture. On the one hand, this seems to make sense. Enterprise architectures are there to address the shared risks for others. They are the cure, not the cause. Unfortunately as cures go, the enterprise architecture is rarely a simple thing and as complexity increases so does the number of opportunities to inject risk. Consider..http://blogs.msdn.com/stcohen/archive/2004/06/02/147022.aspx |