Like most IT professionals, Sneak is often overwhelmed by a desire to gnaw off his own ears, after hearing of yet another IT acronym that seems to serve no purpose in life but to keep IT marketing executives in red braces. So praise be to analyst Neil Ward-Dutton who, upon hearing that Oracle had started to use the term SOA 2.0, decided that it was time for a halt to be called.
Rather than head home to try to order a sniper’s rifle from eBay - which would have been Sneak's first reaction - or start work on a profiteering report on why every organisation should embrace SOA 2.0 - which would have been every other analyst’s first reaction - Ward-Dutton instead launched an online petition. Our double-barrelled friend aims to give both barrels to Oracle, by giving a voice to all those IT professionals for whom the term SOA 2.0 will prove even less helpful than the vaporously vague SOA itself.
If you count yourself among the nay-sayers, you can find the petition at the Macehiter Ward-Dutton web site.
If, on the other hand, you can’t see what Ward-Dutton’s problem is, then Sneak would like to point out that deposits are currently being taken for Sneak’s forthcoming exclusive executive report: SOA 3.0 - Buy it or Die.

23 Jun 2006