Enterprise SOA Apps Take Off on Lightweight Architecture (InfoWorld)

ActiveGrid CEO Peter Yared is back with his thoughts on the advantages of lightweight architecture for SOA. Peter began this series with "Google, Amazon, and Yahoo! point enterprise developers towards "lightweight" architecture".
Enterprise SOA Apps Take Off on Lightweight ArchitectureAt the last InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum, I asked the audience for a show of hands on the following question: "Who thinks it's easier to build an app that communicates to a web service than it is to write an app that communicates to a database?" Of this very sophisticated audience of senior IT architects and managers only two people raised their hands.