Embrace yourself, the future is here. The next big thing is just around the corner. Let me introduce you to Oriented-Oriented Architecture. You can call it mega-OA for short.
Forget pub/sub, asynchronous, scripting, client-server, and all that blah. Who cares for imprecise and elusive concepts grounded in nothing, relics of a worse past. In the future, only objects, services, webs and anything that is oriented, or can be made to orient by applying The Suffix.
So what if you can’t define it, explain it, measure or analyze it. Does it end with -OA? Then bring it on!
The, otherwise fabulous, James Governer, carried too far, as quoted by Stu:
If you think of the post-SOA term, from Nick Gall… Web Oriented Architecture, clearly this is somewhat different from SOA, although there are some patterns common to both of them….. Is the cloud Web-Oriented Operations, or WOO? (We have WOA and WOO)… and what IBM is saying is definitely not WOO, it’s business as usual, it’s just about flexible delivery of application — all the stuff that is goodness, all the stuff that Tivoli has been talking about since 1995. That stuff all has value, but it’s not Cloud. Cloud involves difference. Business as usual, that’s just provisioning service, and automation and virtualization, which is all good, but… if I hear a another person tell me that CLOUD = SOA + VIRTUALIZATION + AUTOMATION, I’m going to ignore them and rubbish the idea as much as I can.
What a noble attempt, capturing the precise definition of Cloud by constraining it between WOA and SOA!
Are you worthy to use The Suffix? Yes you are, if you visited my e-site, clicked an e-ad, conduct e-commerce, read e-books, manage your e-bank account and talk on your e-phone. Those who mastered the prefix, are worthy of using The Suffix.
Everyone else, just know you sound like a retarded parody of @enterprisey.
Eran