‘Oh, no!’ you might think. ‘Another one who wants to shove SOA as a means for corporate agility down my throat …’. 

Relax, nothing could be more wrong. In short, I am certain that SOA does not improve corporate agility, rather the opposite. The problem is that SOA represent a prevailing vision in the eloquent diction of Thomas Sowell’s book ‘The Vision of the Annointed’. A prevailing vision automatically provides a status of higher intelligence to its proponents without the need for empirical proof or more detailed analysis. Opponents simply have non-disclosed darker motives.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) was first proposed by Gartner Group in 1996 in a SSA Research Document as a logical evolution of losely coupled, object-oriented messaging interfaces. But many paths lead to Rome. For example, in 2000   Papyrus WebRepository  as enhanced with a freely definable service adapter for HTTP and FTP and in 2001 with MQ-Series.