Microsoft seeks to bridge Web 2.0 and SOA
eWeek | at | by Mike
While Microsoft has not yet jumped full-fledged onto the Web 2.0 bandwagon, the company is clearly taking a good look and kicking the tires.
John deVadoss, director, architecture strategy at Microsoft, said that although Microsoft has not effectively adopted Web 2.0 as a primary focus, "there is something fundamentally happeningand if Web 2.0 is one end, then SOA service-oriented architecture is the other."
Tim O'Reilly, head of O'Reilly Media Inc., and Dale Dougherty, then a vice president at the company, coined the term Web 2.0 in 2004 to mean the use of the Web as a development platform, basically.