Emerging service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments require SOA management technology.

This is the argument made by David Dennis, the senior director of product marketing at GroundWork Open Source Inc., an open source-based systems and network management vendor, who sees SOA as the future of his industry.

"Any system management product that's going to be designed in the next five to 10 years, needs to be geared to service-oriented architecture and Web services," he said in an interview this week.