SOA and Web 2.0 - how do they relate and should you even care? The answer is complicated and yes you should care. Read on…

While Microsoft has not yet jumped full-fledged onto the Web 2.0 bandwagon, the company is clearly taking a good look and kicking the tires.

John deVadoss, director, architecture strategy at Microsoft, said that although Microsoft has not effectively adopted Web 2.0 as a primary focus, “there is something fundamentally happening…and if Web 2.0 is one end, then SOA [service-oriented architecture] is the other.”

Tim O’Reilly, head of O’Reilly Media Inc., and Dale Dougherty, then a vice president at the company, coined the term Web 2.0 in 2004 to mean the use of the Web as a development platform, basically. [Read the rest]SOA and Web 2.0 - how do they relate and should you even care? The answer is complicated and yes you should care. Read on…

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