“The SOA Consortium’s core mission of advocacy is clearly being heard by the industry as evidenced by our rapid growth in membership,” said Richard Mark Soley, PhD, executive director, SOA Consortium. “We are very pleased to welcome all of our new members and look forward to their participation in our various initiatives.”

The SOA Consortium has announced that 31 new organizations have become members since May 1, bringing the total number of participants to more than 50 in the less than six months since beginning operations. The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt service-oriented architecture (SOA) by 2010. Founding sponsors are BEA Systems, Inc., Cisco, IBM Corporation, and SAP AG.