From Annrai O'Toole: "We're halfway into in 2006 and the interest in SOA and ESBs is stronger now than at any other time in the past. I keep track of this interest in a variety of ways. At one end of the spectrum I measure the amount of inbound RFPs for ESBs that we at Cape Clear receive: this number is up 100% on this time last year. At the other end we monitor what external market analysts are saying and writing about the ESB and SOA space. In the last few weeks two very important surveys have been published: one from Forrester and one from Gartner. [...]"