The previous list of top forums was rated by the number of comments it generated, so this final tally is based on the number of clicks each forum generated. Cloud clearly won the year in terms of reader interest, and for some variety, for the 5th most popular forum, which was "What Will Be The Future of Application Development in Cloud Computing?" I replaced it with the one right after, which was on SOA.
So the most popular forums for 2009 are:
Comments:
Jeff Kaplan: BPM solutions must be easy to implement and modify as the organization's needs change. On-premise solutions have proven to be unable to fulfill these requirements...
JP Morgenthal: The Cloud is about 2 things: cost and elasticity. They are not mutually exclusive, but typically users tend to want one or the other.
Phil Wainewright: I'd argue that the main differences at the outset are the same as with any cloud (or SaaS) versus on-premise application, namely, faster deployment and lower cost because the cloud provider bears the cost and upfront heavy-lifting of deploying and owning the infrastructure.
2) SOA & Cloud Computing: New & Unique or Continuation of the Same Old Stuff?
Comments:
David Linthicum: SOA is architecture, cloud computing is just an instance of an architecture. Albeit there are some great stuff in there, and it will be a focus going forward, we'll still have to do SOA.
Jim Sherburne: I'm definitely part of the Gray Hair brigade and to me the cloud and SOA are certainly important, but clearly evolutionary from my way of thinking. Delivering business value is what has to come first. Arguing semantics and technology need to be secondary.
K. Scott Morrison: The real answer is that SOA and Cloud Computing are both new and unique and a continuation of the same old stuff.
3) What Do You Think of IBM Buying Lombardi?
Comments:
Brian Reale: Think of IBM's announcement as the opening of a flood gate. It is going to be the first of many acquisition announcements in 2010 in the BPM space.
Jaisundar V: This acquisition will upset the balance of power among BPM product vendors in the market and is likely to trigger many reactions from other players.
Michael T. Rowley: I get the feeling that IBM shares the market fragmentation philosophy of some analysts, where the BPM market is divided into document-centric (IBM's FileNet), integration-centric (IBM's Process Server) and human-centric (now-IBM's Lombardi).
4) Are We Making the Same Mistakes With Cloud Computing That We Made With SOA?
Comments:
Joe McKendrick: We have learned a lot from SOA in recent years, especially at it relates to governance and service lifecycle management. But the most important lesson is the way the new approach needs to be sold to the business -- that is, it needs to be offered as a solution for a specific business pain point.
Jeff Kaplan: SOA made plenty of sense theoretically, but it lacked a compelling business case because it often entailed extended projects, significant costs and uncertain benefits. Cloud computing is not just another overhyped term because it is already enabling users to accelerate their projects, save money and create new revenue opportunities.
Greg Carter: Cloud computing has avoided the drag of being technology-driven and instead started as a business-driven way to deliver content and functions to a broad audience with relatively low cost - think SaaS. In my experience many grass roots efforts with services and SOA were quickly dragged down by complex SOA "initiatives."
5) Is SOA Dead?
Comments:
David Linthicum: The complexity of SOA was just too much for most global 2000 companies, and the recent round of budget cuts killed many SOA projects.
David A. Kelly: While SOA isn't easy, and the results generally don't just fall into your lap, I think there's more here than simply declaring SOA dead and moving on to the next big thing. From the organizations I've talked with, SOA is still alive and well, and doing quite nicely.
Miko Matsumura: SOA is neither alive nor dead...90% of the economy runs atop "dead" technologies.
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