Steve Shah's Blog
I don't have a Linux strategy

No, really. I don't.

I don't have an XML strategy either.
No go on a SOA strategy.
Don't bother asking about my LAMP strategy.

Why don't I have a strategy for these things? Simple: They are technologies, not businesses in their own right. Yet, I seem to run across Yet Another Article asking whether I have a strategy around a technology. It's mind numbing.

It hurts my head to read how people make business decisions around technology rather than figuring out what technologies are right for the business. A CIO quoted in an article went so far to say that "SOA is the business plan." What? No... SOA is a application architecture. You can use it for writing games, hacker tools, or CRM systems -- SOA does not care. If it makes sense for solving your business problem, awesome. But please, declaring that you're going to use SOA and then figuring out how for a given problem is simply absurd.


Posted: Wed May 10 23:10:23 2006
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