Beware the Suite Siren Song
Joe McKendrick's recent post hit the nail right on the head -- we have now entered the phase of marketing hype in the SOA world where the more the merrier, at least as far as the big vendors are concerned (after all, there's more to sell that way). I especially like Jim Kobelius' quote "Isn’t this notion of a SOA suite from a single vendor getting us back into the monolithic days of yore?" I guess flexibility is in the eye of the beholder...
The SOA space still has plenty of shaking out to do before we can consider it to be old hat technology. Given the current state, openness and integrateability ought to be high on your list of requirements -- who knows what surprises lurk down the road as SOA tooling and runtimes continue to mature. Don't rush down the suite path, you may regret it.
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