15 Quotes by Ron Schmelzer

It's not so much sizzle now. There's more meat.

It's another indication of the market maturing. Clustered security is pretty advanced.

That's a bit less sexy, because you're getting down to brass tacks: implementation details, not the big news stories.

This is just continuing the momentum. We are past the stage where SOA is hype. It's the right time for SOA. Now it's a matter whether or not it will stick and whether companies will commit to it. Success stories like this help.

SOA is maturing. If you wanted to do SOA four years ago you were pretty much on your own. You had a couple of products that would let you do some Web services, but now SOA is a lot more than Web services. It's governance and security and metadata and much more.

All of these companies are piling into this real weird bandwagon. ESB is a problematic term that was sickly in 2005 and I think it's going to die in 2006.