Niel Ward-Dutton on some SOA/Cloud/Saas commonalities

This post gives some insight into what the Software as a Service success stories and Cloud computing in general has to offer the SOA world. He emphasises again that SOA is not just about how to build things, or expose applications wrapped in XML. It's about the experience of using the service. That's from the user point of view... from the provider point of view, I'd say it's about exposing some part of the business to a set of consumers. "Services align with business functionality" is the primary insight that SOA has to offer -- otherwise we're just doing distributed components again - and very poorly at that when you consider the mish-mash of WS-* stuff that we seem to be required to use to build it with.

Big Blue in bed with "Big Orange"

Looks like IBM and Amazon.com are teaming up in cloudland:


IBM to Deliver Software via Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services

[via eBizQ]