Return from VSLive
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Some might consider VSLive in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., a bit of foreplay for the major launch of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 on Nov. 7 in San Francisco. But hey, it was still fun.
During his keynote at VSLive Wednesday, Richard Turner, a product manager of Web services strategy at Microsoft, said the term SOA, or service-oriented architecture, is misused and overused, especially when it is splashed all over white papers and presentations from competitors.
"Service orientation is the industry's biggest buzzword," Turner proclaimed. "The term SOA is myth. If you read whitepapers from many of our competitors who shall remain nameless, or marketing and product releases from many of our competitors, you'll see the term SOA liberally splashed across those articles."