Comments on: Yes, But What About The Legacy? http://lesscode.org/2005/10/03/yes-but-what-about-the-legacy/ AAaaaaahhhhrrrrrrr! Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:12:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Mitch Barnett http://lesscode.org/2005/10/03/yes-but-what-about-the-legacy/#comment-535 Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:56:13 +0000 http://lesscode.org/2005/10/03/yes-but-what-about-the-legacy/#comment-535 <p>I agree with Alex B. – SOA is the biggest and baddest buzzword to hit our IT industry to date. See: <a href="http://www.hurwitz.com/newsletters/soa---towards-the-industrialization-of-software-5.html" rel="nofollow">SOA – Towards The Industrialization Of Software</a></p> <p>With respect to legacy systems, being first class citizens exposing data; to quote <a href="http://pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/archive/2005/09/22/14989.aspx" rel="nofollow">Don Box</a>, “Message, oh message, the truth is on the wire. There is nothing else.” And that is the point of SOA. Who cares if it came from a legacy RDBMS or anything else for that matter, the truth is still on the wire. And everyone wants to know the truth, right? :-)</p> I agree with Alex B. – SOA is the biggest and baddest buzzword to hit our IT industry to date. See: SOA – Towards The Industrialization Of Software

With respect to legacy systems, being first class citizens exposing data; to quote Don Box, “Message, oh message, the truth is on the wire. There is nothing else.” And that is the point of SOA. Who cares if it came from a legacy RDBMS or anything else for that matter, the truth is still on the wire. And everyone wants to know the truth, right? :-)

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