Just to let folks be aware that SOA, the architecture-formerly-known-as-SOA, and the architecture-until-recently-known-as-SOA is alive-and-well, I gathered up some success stories that show tangible ROI from recent SOA projects across the industry, which include some Oracle customers.
I came across this set of case studies from the OMG SOA Consortium web site – [...]
In case you need to catch up, Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group declared that “SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession!”.
In her posting, she states –
Service-orientation is a prerequisite for rapid integration of data and business processes; [...]
Oracle Press
Release
Customers are Choosing the Oracle Database Machine
Oracle® Exadata Delivers Extreme Performance
Redwood Shores, CA – June 29, 2009
News Facts
With its extreme performance and low cost, Oracle® Exadata is winning benchmarks against key competitors and is being selected by customers across many industries worldwide as the platform of choice for their data [...]