By and large my opinion is that 70% of those drag the topic ultilately to web-services or similar technical topics. Rest of the 30% who tend to remain pure in terms of SOA as a concept also fail to bring realistic and implementation-level view-point on how IT can be transformed using SOA. So in nut-shell, SOA is loosing the differentiation it tried to create all these years…
(dead link) Source (http://infosysblogs.com/soa/2008/09/soa_on_its_way_out_lets_get_re_1.html#more)
Industry analyst firm Gartner estimates that by 2008, more than 60 percent of enterprises will use service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a guiding principle when creating essential software applications and business processes.
Source (dead link – http://www.ciol.com/content/special/soa/interview2.asp)
Sir Tim Berners-Lee announced a new World Wide Web Foundation:
To encourage those communities to come together, I am pleased to unveil tonight a new Foundation, the World Wide Web Foundation. The mission of the Foundation is:
* to advance One Web that is free and open,
* to expand the Web’s capability and robustness,
* and to extend the Web’s benefits to all people on the planet.
The Web Foundation will bring together business leaders, technology innovators, academia, government, NGOs, and experts in many fields to tackle challenges that, like the Web, are global in scale. The Web Foundation is in the unique position of being able to learn from the results of projects to accelerate the evolution of the Web.
A beta version of the Google browser, called Chrome, will be available for download by Windows computer users in more than 100 countries. Chrome will offer features that make it easier, faster and safer to browse the Web, the Mountain View, Calif., search giant said in a blog post Monday.