This is a summary of comments I made in a panel discussion on Service Oriented Architectures at the Open iWorld at the IMS Learning Impact meeting.
Here are the slides that I used in the presentation.
Colin Smythe spoke before me and mad a number of great comments that suggested that SOA had been overhyped and was now in a bit of the “trough of disillusionment”.
I started my comments by suggesting that SOA (Upper Case) was pretty much dead and pretty much DOA. But at the same time “service oriented architectures” (Lower Case) were very much alive and well on campuses. We are using plenty of “services” – we just don’t see them as such.