Our Fascination with Technologies such as DCOM / CORBA / SOA / etc.

One blogger wrote: 

“For this customer, it would have been easy to say use an ESB/Web Services/SOA whatever to mediate the messaging between the two platforms however, as with everything else in our sphere of work, a pragmatic approach might often be a better approach”

BRAVO!

It is almost always the better approach! Yes, let’s make technology the slave to the objectives, rather than the other way around.

You know, there is an old adage (well, it’s pretty new, and I wrote it) that says “When someone is able to achieve an understanding of a concept that is beyond that which they understood before, they are likely to believe it”. This is classic for technology, once people are able to bridge the gap in understanding new concepts such as SOA (and then beyond that, the finer details of SOA), they are far more likely to believe it is the way to solve a large # of problems)

(this is also relevant for philosophy/religion, teach it in a way that one has the “ah hah, I get it” moment, there is higher chance of acceptance — it’s all about pride)

You know… when one learns how to swing a hammer, everything looks like a nail!