Last week I posed the question, "What's wrong with SOA?" For those of you who missed it, I'll save you the trouble of reading it now. The answer, in a nutshell: Confusion. It reigns supreme in the SOA space. In several decades of covering IT, I've never witnessed the level of disagreement about the very definition of a major industry trend, such as we are seeing with SOA. There is no shortage of industry research that validates momentum around SOA. Likewise, there is no shortage of books, papers, pundits and bloggers who espouse or otherwise agree with one or another definition of SOA. But the fact remains that any discussion of SOA quickly devolves into an IT version of David Ben Gurion's political maxim: "Wherever there are two Jews, there will be three opinions."
