On a global scale, SOA Enthusiasm, the U.S. hot, cold in China, China's information technology has always been tracking the U.S. trend, since Gartner first proposed 11 years ago, the concept of SOA has been on the definition of SOA has been no conclusiveSome focused on technology, and some focus on service, some focus on the method.Void is not SOA, but SOA is too large, according to experts, to say that, "SOA is essentially a set of concepts and methods, different people from different perspectives SOA".
"SOA is neither a technology nor a product, but a framework, an idea, or that a business through the integration of best technical means to achieve the ideal."
Can not be accurately defined, does not mean there is no clear direction, SOA increasingly sought after by the industry's concerns or because of, the application of SOA in 2007 to more than 50% in 2008 and 2010, using the enterprise SOA system will70% and 80%.
What business value as well as how it uses SOA
Earlier this year, HP plans to invest 500 million U.S. dollars in the U.S., Singapore and India, the construction of three "SOA capacity building center."As early as three years ago, IBM announced the establishment of the first SOA Solution Center, for funding tens of billions of dollars invested in 2006 alone six or seven billion dollars, will aim to further expand the IBM mainframe in the SOA market share.
From the industry point of view, SOA wider range of applications.Forrester principal analyst RayWang point out that a number of service-oriented industries, such as financial services, insurance, public sector, telecommunications, retail, high-tech manufacturing and wholesalers are the largest sector application of SOA.
SOA for telecommunications networks has been particularly great.Siemens has established a communication platform based on SOA and the SOA applications into the main phone into, IBM caught on, in the application and use Siemens SOA framework to cooperate on 30 projects.
OUTLOOK The global information technology market, SOA's prospects are very broad.Currently, almost all the manufacturers involved in middleware, are involved in SOA development camp, the United States, 46% of large enterprises use SOA system to promote business restructuring, UF, Kingdee and other domestic manufacturers have made SOA strategy, and begin to promote theirproducts and programs.Statistics show that the global SOA market growth in 2006 60.3 billion, increased by 75% over 2005, is expected to reach 143 billion U.S. dollars in 2008.
Industry has reached a consensus, as a new generation of software architecture, SOA will in the next three to five years of software industry and telecommunications, the Internet has brought a revolutionary change.Juniper Networks Chairman and CEOScottKriens emphasized that the technology will be based on SOA for IT spending, "the next great power."
There are two sets of data, showing the status of China's SOA Market: First, a survey for Chinese users that have adopted SOA, 8.6%, planned for 2008 accounted for 42.9% of the SOA, on the 2010 plan5.7%, accounted for 42.9% of wait and see; Second, in the SOA market, foreign firms accounted for about 70% market share, domestic manufacturers accounted for 30% market share.
Cooperation in SOA, development and application, Chinese enterprises can not passively wait.