Blogger: Anne Thomas Manes Obituary: SOA SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”. Once thought to be the savior of IT, SOA instead turned into a great failed experiment—at least for most or