A nice article on current SOA adoption in India in Business Standard today. Do check it out. (Some of my views also quoted). With Indian business looking for quick and cost-effective ways to respond to changing global market conditions, service-oriented architecture (SOA) providers expect the technology's adoption to rise 10-to 20-fold in two to three years
SOA is an architectural approach to constructing complex software-intensive systems from a set of universally interconnected and interdependent building blocks called services. Software revenue for SOA providers, according to Gartner's analysis, is expected to grow to $142 billion by 2011.
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