Nick Gall

My keynote at the Microsoft SOA and BP conference has generated a bit of press, including this excellent summary by Darryl Taft ("Gartner: How to Unify Your SOA Roll-Out") and this take on a quote from that article by Joe McKendrick ("Analyst: ‘you’ll all be doing SOA in 18 months whether you plan to or [...]

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Anne Thomas Manes has started the new year of with a bang by declaring: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services.
While I agree with many of the sentiments behind Anne’s declarations that “SOA is dead”, I disagree with her way forward: “long live services”.
It is services thinking, as conventionally understood, that led to the mess in [...]

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As my friend and colleague Anthony Bradley just pointed out in his blog, our WOA note has finally been published (subscription required) and it’s something that I am very proud of. Not just because my co-authors Anthony, Dan Sholler and I produced a well-crafted piece of research (if I do say so myself), but more [...]

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There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the Service-Orientated Architecture Yahoo Group. Below is an excerpt of one of my contributions to give you a flavor of the debate. Please join in (preferably on my side <grin>)!
I’m calling [Bull****] on Business-SOA, which I interpret as business-only SOA, ie believing that technology is basically irrelevant [...]

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I attended Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s “Mastermind Interview” at Gartner’s Web Innovation conference earlier today. It was very entertaining and insightful. My favorite takeaway BY FAR was this:
Marc: “Your application? It’s all metadata.”
Marc: “We run your metadata.”
I find it refreshing that Marc calls this concept “metadata driven” instead of the more hifalutin “model driven”.  The [...]

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