IT practitioners from a broad range of industries joined on Feb. 8 with end user companies, technology suppliers and standards organizations to establish the IC SOA. The Integration Consortium (IC) will sponsor the platform and infrastructure to foster the IC SOA collaboration community.

"The end user representatives in the IC SOA community need to work together to stop the 'standards wars' and restore confidence in the business community that the IT Industry can indeed solve the interoperability challenges and facilitate profitability for business," said John Schmidt, chairman of the Integration Consortium.