Despite marketing campaigns to the contrary, reuse is not core to the value of SOA, David Linthicum asserts.
"Not that you won't achieve reuse, and that there is benefit, but that the value of agility, or creating an architecture that's changeable around the needs of the business is far more valuable than any services you can share," he explains in SOA spending up, so where is the value? "People chase SOA understanding that reuse is the core value. Thus, when it's not they consider SOA a failure."
Then again, a reader comments that "it's hard to separate reuse from agility."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on March 3, 2008 04:37 AM
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