Just returned from another assignment as an enterprise architect. In the UK this time. Nice job, great people, well-received deliverables. But again, it was not easy for me and the team to finish 100% of our original statement of work. And to play a prominent role also in the last part of our enterprise architecture cycle: the governance of the implementation projects. Why can life be so difficult for enterprise architects these days? Why is …

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Through the noise of the latest IT hype – Cloud computing – I try to follow the somewhat quiet but lingering discussion around SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) versus WOA (Web-Oriented Architecture). Just to get grip and understanding if the one (WOA) is the successor of the other (SOA), if the other will slowly fade away, if the two are complementary and if so: what to implement when? Pretty hard to get hold of where this discussion …

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