The Merging of SOA and Web 2.0: 2

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:00:48 -0000

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Great article series from eWeek. A must read. But it all comes down to interoperability across two stack models: The Microsoft Vista Stack, and an alternative Open Stack model that does not yet exist!

Incompatible formats become a nightmare for the kind of integration any kind of SOA implementation depends on, let alone the Web 2.0 AJAX MashUps this article focuses on.

I wonder why eWEEK didn't include the Joe Wilcox Micrsoft Watch Article, "Obla De OBA Da". Joe hit hard on the connection between OOXML and the Vista Stack. He missed the implications this will have on MS SOA solutions. Open Source SOA solutions will be locked out of the Vista Stack. And with 98% or more of existing desktop business processes bound to MSOffice, the transition of these business processes to the Vista Stack will no doubt have a dramatic impact on the marketplace. Before the year is out, we'll see Redmond let loose with a torrent of MS SOA solutions. The only reason they've held back is that they need to first have all the Vista Stack pieces in place.

I don't think Microsoft is being held back by OOXML approval at ISO either. ISO approval might have made a difference in Europe in 2006, but even there, the EU IDABC has dropped the ISO requirement. For sure ISO approval means nothing in the US, as California and Massachusetts have demonstrated.

All that matters to State CIO's is that they can migrate exisiting docuemnts and business processes to XML. The only question is, "Which XML? OOXML, ODF or XHTML+".

The high fidelity conversion ratio and non disruptive OOXML plugin for MSOffice has certainly provided OOXML with the edge in this process.

Because of ODF vendor in fighting in Massachusetts, and the subsequent failure of ODF, the hapless file format arrived in California and other states with a hardened reprutation as "great file format, but impossible to implement".

The next question people have to start askign is what impact will OOXML and the Vista Stack have on SOA? Will open source and non Micrsoft vendor SOA solutions be locked out of the Vista STack?

Of course. If ever there was a no brainer this is it. Microsoft is goign to eXtend their desktop monopoly to servers, devices and the web using the highly proprietary Vista STack to lock in business process customers for years to come.

~ge~
posted by garyedwards

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In many cases, the mashups' data or information sources have incompatible formats so integration becomes a problem.

Tags: 2.0 ajax mashup odf ooxml soa web

Posted by: garyedwards

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