The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[email protected] (Timothy Sipples) writes: > Does anyone understand this article's title? It's quite tough to parse. > > The title is very much like saying "...ditches its bowl for breakfast > cereal," isn't it? > > It's probably also worth pointing out that, if you crack open the textbook > definition of SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), you won't find "step 1: > throw everything away" anywhere. That would tend to be the antithesis of > the definition, as a matter of fact. we claim that the payment gateway was the original SOA ... some posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway which acted as intermediary between webservers and the payment infrastructure. two of the people in jan92 ha/cmp cluster scaleup meeting, mentioned here http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13 later leave and show up at small client/server startup responsible for something called "commerce server" ... which was a multi-store, virtual mall-like paradigm with heavy oracle backend. we had also left and were asked to come in to consult because they wanted to do payment transactions on the server; the small client/server startup had also invented this technology called SSL that they wanted to use. The result is now frequently called "electronic commerce'. -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
