To provide further evidence that the "overseas" markets really get and are spending real dollars on SOA, ZapThink spent a full six weeks on the road in the last two months of 2006 providing training, education, direct advisory, and speaking with end-user clients, of which only one day was spent in the United States.

Is it a fluke that the world is moving towards SOA in lockstep, with certain geographies moving faster than they have before? There might be lots of factors contributing to worldwide growth of SOA. One macroeconomic issue might be the weak US dollar and heavily US-dominated base of vendors contributing to a larger pull of overseas money for SOA. Another issue is that the US is dominated by most of the large software vendors, and they are creating so much noise in the local marketplace that it is confusing the local end-user community.