Now, SOA and technology lock-in should not even be on the same page! Unfortunately, today, too often technology comes before business. Is it because it is easier, people getting lazy, more power games and politics in corporations, vendors getting more pushy and more clever, or something else? I don’t know but I have seen the results many times in past and they are not pretty! Still wondering where the whole idea that technology can replace strategy, thinking, planning, etc came (again)? Education, greed, what?

And yes, MS is (mostly) still doing what was their success story but there are signs that they may change? It just will take time and that is one luxury in todays fast paced business world which is getting shorter and shorter.

Maybe SOA teaching and advertisement should be more on Cxx and MBA level than on IT level? IT should but doesn’t always see the big picture, only technical solutions which, as good and needed they may be, are not the whole business.