I’ve always been a fan a Dana Gardner. I remember dealing with him (and now I’m dating myself) all the way back to his days at InfoWorld and IDG News and always remember him to be quite insightful about the trends that are driving and shaping the industry.
We’ve had the opportunity to put a couple of our folks in front of Dana to talk about open source and its potential impact on the adoption of SOA. I think the podcast from back in December came out really well and is really worth a listen, but it’s one of Dana’a more recent entries that I found quite relevant to what IONA is all about.
Dana gathered a number of industry analysts – including Steve Garone, Tony Baer, Joe McKendrick and Jim Kobielus (in no particular order) – to talk about the Soul of SOA. The conversation, to my mind at least, naturally came around to what value does (or can) SOA bring to an organization. Each analyst has some pretty interesting views on the value of SOA and how you can measure things like ROI.
I don’t want to simply cut and paste quotes from Dana’s transcript of the conversation, because I believe they’re better, and more impactful, taken in context of the conversation. But after you spend some time with Dana and his cohorts, I’d welcome you to take a closer look at IONA and our distributed SOA infrastructure solutions including Artix and our open source offerings in the Celtix family. The kind of value these analysts are talking about is the kind of value IONA delivers to its customers every day.