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.
ess-oh-ay all the way. Only people attempting to be "cool" or "in-the-known-when-they-don't" use the "sewer" version.