Uma cara tá bem documentada no Flashback do mês. Desatualizada? Então saca só um trecho de um anúncio de um evento tupiniquim sobre SOA:

Em um mercado feito de buzzwords, a palavra da vez é SOA. Nos últimos anos, a popularidade da arquitetura orientada a serviços cresceu dramaticamente e as taxas de adoção também vêm aumentando significativamente. Localização geográfica, porte ou segmento de atuação não interferem, todos querem SOA.

Os negritos não são meus!

A cara tupiniquim tá com uns 2 anos de atraso. Cágados míopes e mancos? Pode ser. Resta torcer para que não repitam o caminho que o Zapthink acaba de comentar em "Who's Killing SOA?". Saca só o trechinho sobre CIO's:

You'd think that every CIO would be all over SOA. After all SOA can reduce integration cost, increase business visibility and agility, increase asset reuse, and ease regulatory compliance. What's not to love? For any organization that faces any or all of these problems, SOA is a no-brainer. And yet, the CIO is rarely the SOA champion for the IT organization.

The reasons for this lack of insight are many and varied. Many CIOs are nontechnical, and as a result don't understand, and often fear, architecture of any kind. Others are so driven by quarterly results that a long-term, iterative initiative like enterprise SOA is out of the question. Still others insist on project-based IT funding to meet the needs of individual lines of business, a funding mechanism virtually guaranteed to slow down any initiative that seeks to reuse assets across the IT organization the way that SOA encourages.

Fortunately, you can recognize clueful CIOs because they understand the business value SOA can provide, they are willing to fund initial SOA iterations, and as the IT organization delivers value with those early projects, the CIO authorizes more of the same. Unfortunately, however, such executives are few and far between.


Enquanto a outra cara falou que "não há espaço para profissional (CIO) eminentemente técnico", saca só o trecho com negrito (meu).