A NetworkWorld article quotes Google's GM of Enterprise Business as saying:
The methodology of Enterprise Integration has advanced to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) because of its ability to weave disparate applications and services to produce a business structure where data can flow as a business process.
Ken Gardner is founder and Executive Chairman of SOASTA, a privately-held technology company focused on developing visual software tools for the testing, certification, and demonstration of SOA-based systems.
IBM has purchased the Austin-based company and plans to integrate its technology with the WebSphere brand under IBM's Software Group.
Service-oriented architectures have gained in mindshare and adoption, and require the support of a diverse team to make them useful to their target audience.
Ok, the way to SOA with the Ingres database and BEA is to go and download today Ingres, BEA Workshop Studio, and the Eclipse SDK.
A combination of Java Enterprise Edition 5, aka J2EE, and Oracle's Project Fusion middleware components will build the service-oriented architecture (SOA) of Oracle's future.
Andrew McAfee, who first mentioned the term Enterprise 2.0 to me on December 1st 2005, provides a definition:
Today's IT executives want the best software available. With business process management that means finding solutions that provide key benefits.
Over the next few months, IBM is launching a massive set of products and services to bolster implementation of service-oriented architecture in businesses that use WebSphere software. Of particular interest to many is the deployment of the new WebSphere Portal using AJAX.