An old colleague and friend of mine called me the other day. She had worked at IONA several years ago, moved on into a different part of the software industry and is now back working in the "middleware" sector again.
She was wondering what all the fuss was about SOA? Was there something new? Could I explain the basics to her again just in case she missed something?
You see there are a couple of issues here: 1) it's not new, some of us have been talking about services and SOA for a long time - so long we're almost burned out talking about it and 2) it's amazing how much people forget or how ignorant some others are about the basics (not my friend).
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