Strangely, I've just found the SOA Manifesto … there's a few big hitters as signatories. Particularly liked these priorities:
Business value over technical strategy
Strategic goals over project-specific benefits
Intrinsic interoperability over custom integration
Shared services over specific-purpose implementations
Flexibility over optimization
Evolutionary refinement over pursuit of initial perfection
Steve – thanks for those links. That’s good background/expansion on the manifesto
FYI.
Thomas has now published the annotated manifesto and I have been blogging my thoughts on what it all means in more details.
See
pi4tech.blogspot.com
http://www.soa-manifesto.com/annotated.htm