S-O-A or Soah? You can help decide, once and for all...
ebizQ is running a new poll on how SOA should be pronounced, and so far, the results are roughly 50-50 -- half say "Es-oh-ay," and half say "Soah."
Readers, do you feel SOA is worthy of status as a word? Other tech terms have eventually, or sometimes quickly, gained word status.
Typically, it's either a word or it's not. No two ways about it. You don't hear anyone talking about deploying on the U-N-I-X operating system, and no one attached S-O-A-P headers on their Web services. And if they're not using S-O-A-P, they're certainly not using R-E-S-T either. GUI, of course, is Gooey. G-U-I sounds like something you could get locked up for.
BPEL gets word status, as "Beeple," but BPM remains "B-P-M." (Perhaps it could be called Beep 'em? Not just for auto traffic flow, but business workflow?)
Should we all just settle on Soah? Take the poll, please -- and yes, that’s my voice on the accompanying audio file.
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• Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst & Managing Partner, ZapThink LLC
• Keith Harrison-Broninski, Independent consultant, writer, researcher, HumanEdJ
• John Crupi, CTO, JackBe Corporation
• Sandy Kemsley, Independent BPM Analyst, column2.com
• Prasanna Krishna, SOA Lab Director, THBS
• Miko Matsumara, VP & Deputy CTO, SoftwareAG
• Atul Patel, Head MDM Business, SAP Asia Pacifc & Japan
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• Coach Wei, Chairman & CTO, Nexaweb
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• BPEL: Strengths, Limitations & Future!
• MDM: Jumpstart Your SOA Journey
• Governance, Quality, and Management: The Three Pillars of SOA Implementations
• Building the Business Case for SOA
• Avoiding SOA Pitfalls
• SOA Governance and Human Interaction Management
• Business Intelligence, BPM, and SOA Handshake
• Enterprise 2.0: Social Impact of Web 2.0 Inside Organizations
• Web 2.0 and SOA – Friends or Foe?
• Achieving Decision Yield across the SOA-based Enterprise
• Governance from day one
• Demystifying Enterprise Mashups
• Perfecting the Approach to Enterprise SOA
• How to Build Cost Effective SOA. “Made in India” Really Works!
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ess-oh-ay all the way. Only people attempting to be "cool" or "in-the-known-when-they-don't" use the "sewer" version.