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SOA in a new box

By | July 10, 2010, 2:54pm PDT

Summary: If that shiny new cloud being delivered looks awfully familiar… Geek & Poke’s Oliver Widder points out that  a couple of years back, SOA was delivered in a similar box, probably by the same consultants.

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Joe McKendrick is an author, consultant and speaker specializing in trends and developments shaping the technology industry.

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Joe McKendrick

Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets. Joe is co-author, along with 16 leading industry leaders and thinkers, of the SOA Manifesto, which outlines the values and guiding principles of service orientation. He also speaks frequently on Enterprise 2.0 and SOA topics at industry events and Webcasts, and serves on the program committee for this year's SOA & Cloud Symposium in London. As an independent analyst, he has also authored numerous research reports in partnership with Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc. for user groups such as SHARE, Oracle Applications Users Group, and International DB2 Users Group. In a previous life, Joe served as director of the Administrative Management Society (AMS), an international professional association dedicated to advancing knowledge within the IT and business management fields. He is a graduate of Temple University.

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