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Microsoft Chief Bill Gates provided a wide array of thoughts on SOA and integration issues at Microsoft Corp's Convergence user conference in Dallas on Monday. Computer Business Review has an article today that highlights Gates' views on the development of service-oriented applications.

Some key SOA points from the article:

"Gates warned of some dangers, cautioning that SOA in the consumer world, delivered over the internet, has been over-simplified and can be lacking in the areas of security, reliability and scalability, so it was important to design SOA for a business-class environment. Collaboration is also an important component and here Windows SharePoint Services will provide the foundation to enable a transparent organization where employees, partners and suppliers can access data at all times in a secure manner. [...] In practice Gates believes SOA and collaboration developments will be important in crossing the boundary between structured applications and human based communications, which is where business transactions go awry."

Joe McKendrick of ZdNet's SOA Blog comments on the speech here.

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