I had an interesting conference call with our management team from SHARE and Brenda Michelson, principal consultant for Elemental Links and Richard Soley, CEO of Object Management Group. The topic was about cooperative initiatives between the SOA Consortium and SHARE possibly starting at the February 2008 meeting in Orlando. Both Brenda and Richard are key players in the SOA Consortium which is a new SOA advocacy group comprised of end users, service providers, and technology vendors, committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt SOA by 2010. In particular, Dr. Soley suggested he could help arrange a panel discussion session with key C-level managers who have actually implemented SOA. As a reference he pointed us to a similar panel session that he arranged for the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit this past June in Nashville. The panel discussion session features Nida Davis Roemer (CTO of Red Cross), Yoav Intrator (Chief Architect of Deusche Bank), and Surekha Durvasula (IT architect from Kohl's Department Store). You can listen to or download the
audio capture of that session, which I did. I found it very interesting and enlightening. They answer tough questions about What is SOA really all about? How do you measure success with SOA? SOA is not a reuse strategy - it is a business transformation strategy. SOA is not a technology or product, it is a journey. If you are doing anything with SOA, it is really worth the listen.
So the next question I have to solve is whether this will be well received at SHARE? So, anyone reading this who has an opinion, please chime in with your comments.