Can SOA take away jobs? Some think so...Add to Sep. 11, 2007 There are some that think SOA may take jobs away... Rich Seeley reports that one of the topics that came up in a recent OMG SOA Consortium podcast was the potential threat SOA posed to developers’ jobs.  Case in point: IBM’s Fill Bowen said that “we’ve had some companies that said going to SOA is a way to downsize...” (??) On average, a large company the size of IBM with multiple development teams across different business units will see SOA as a way to consolidate development efforts to concentrate sharable services. That’s certainly the value proposition continually preached by SOA vendors and Web services consultants. Of course, every conclusion is that developers made redundant could be directed to “higher-value” business tasks. Ron Schmelzer has been quoted as saying that there’s a good reason for developers to feel some concerns over SOA. “The movement is architectural, not technological, and this means that SOA folks who have skills only for developing or building new assets will be at a significant disadvantage in an environment that demands greater reuse and loose coupling in an environment of heterogeneity and continuous change.” Of course, less enlightened companies could seize upon the SOA opportunity to reduce significantly. However, there aren’t too many companies like that out there...  Maybe this is the root cause of why IT organizations allegedly resist SOA so much. IBM’s Bowen urges a collaborative teamwork approach to SOA to alleviate fears. “A lot of discussions early on when you’re putting our governance in place is to say, okay, your job is not going away. It may change, but it’s not going to away. That is not the intent of SOA. It’s not intended to downsize your IT shops. It’s intended to make your business more productive.” Since the goal of SOA is to automate and industrialize software development, it’s likely that many development jobs will be shifted. But as with all previous automation and industrialization shifts, it means of course greater opportunities and in many new ways. Ron Schmelzer urges a proactive approach to urging developers to grow their architectural skills. “There’s a dramatic and significant lack of architecture talent and skills,” Schmelzer said. “So, while development skills may experience a long-term decline in demand, architecture skills will experience a long-term heightened demand.” Add to Source: Web Services.org  Have your website professionally optimized by the search engine positioning experts at Rank for $ales. If your site has dropped in rankings since November 16, 2003, contact the search engine positioning experts at Rank for Sales. Get your business or company listed in the Global Business Listing directory and increase your business. It takes less then 24 hours to get a premium listing in the most powerful business search engine there is. Click here to find out all about it. For the best technical information on hardware, software, Internet applications, e-Commerce, B2B, Web services or IT-related industry news, visit Tech Blog. Reciprocal Link Exchange Program: If your company is engaged in the business of Web Services, the development of related Internet application, ecommerce or B2B development, Internet security services, Web hosting services or is involved in professional Search Engine Optimization, My Web Services is seriously interested in a worthwhile Reciprocal Link Exchange Trading Program with your company. Click here to get all the details.
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