Olufsphere

It wasn't that long ago - 2 years to be exact - that we all were steaming with positive energy. Lotusphere 2006 had just finished, and there was no longer any doubt: Notes was cool! This was "our time". The Notes 8 client - back then known just as "Hannover" - was about to revolutionize the collaboration universe with it's Eclipse based Managed Client Framework. IBM Lotus was back on the up (although they were never REALLY down), and a catchy slogan spread like a stampede through the blogosphere ...

Having now stated that SOA is an architecture, it is time to consider what makes SOA unique and interesting, compared to the way we do things already. It is time to consider the concept of "the serv