The market analyst found even if it is no surprise that technology diversity drives adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA), clear patterns exist in the use of development platforms, development languages, and application platform vendors that affect how rapidly certain IT segments adopt SOA.

With SOA adoption among small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), says the analyst, there is fairly wide variation in SOA penetration and current use of SOA when measuring by development platform, by number of development platforms, and by development language — but not as much variation as there is when measuring by number of development languages.