How will we look back on SOA in 2020?

What will speakers at conferences in the future be saying about today's great SOA movement? Will they be looking back and talking about all the mistaken assumptions that were made about SOA?

Maybe the opposite will be true. Canadian Technology News reports that Gary Doucet, chief architect for the Canadian government, said at a recent conference that SOA is hampered by too much variability in the specs and models, but that technical efforts will gradually align with business efforts.

Then the technical services will be truly executable in different businesses. This is further out but will really bring the most value from SOA. “I am hoping that by 2020, that we look back and say that was the case.”

Who notes what people will be saying in 2020, but let's hope they talk about how SOA was an important development on the journey to frictionless online business.