Taking the horror out of SOA

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Widely misunderstood and wilfully abused, the term "service-oriented architecture" fills many IT leaders with dread, but behind the monstrous hype are some frightfully sound principles. So how should organisations go about putting them into practice? Computing asked leading experts for their views

SOA has been the victim of montrous hype Why SOA makes sense It is more than 75 years since the story of Frankenstein’s monster first hit the big screen, with Boris Karloff’s iconic character...

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