Friday, 13 April 2007

Engaging the SOA Market the Open Source Way

Iona’s acquisition of LogicBlaze is targeted at the open source development for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This move demonstrated the diversity attached to the SOA consolidation activities.

Today SOA vendors are linking hands with enterprise software players. There seems to be a mutual co-exsisting strategy that provides a piece of cake for both parties. The SOA startups require revenue and the existing firms require a fast track to SOA-based capabilities and developers.

This relationship between the two platforms is not restricted to mergers and acquisitions alone. Today we are able to view "all-for-one, one-for-all" SOA value attainment trend.

Enterprises are bullish on the concept of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and adoption is expected to double over the next two years, according to Evans Data Corporation’s recently released Corporate Development Issues Survey. In this survey, close to a quarter of enterprise-level developers indicated that they already have SOA in place, and another 28 per cent plan to do so within the next 24 months. Adoption of enterprise service buses (currently at 15 per cent) will more than double during this same time, respondents said.

"The SOA software market is poised for healthy growth as large enterprises across all verticals are adopting SOA-based solutions for their business related issues," notes John F. Andrews, President of Evans Data Corporation. "Enterprise integration and the need for flexible business processes continues to drive the demand for SOA as a viable and popular option to achieving competent IT infrastructure.