"Lewis and Fowler clearly have a bone to pick with this first-generation approach to SOA." #readingToday  

Lewis and Fowler clearly have a bone to pick with this first-generation approach to SOA. "In particular we have seen so many botched implementations of service orientation, from the tendency to hide complexity away in ESB's, to failed multi-year initiatives that cost millions and deliver no value, to centralised governance models that actively inhibit change," Lewis and Fowler pontificate, "that it is sometimes difficult to see past these problems."