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Reacting to Anne Thomas Manes' claim that SOA is dead, Mike Kavis asks: "when are we going to admit that we will continue to fail until we invest in enterprise architecture?"

IW's Bob Evans presents a hypothetical dialog between a CEO and a CIO -- "the CIO's response to a performance review letter from his CEO which contained a 'you're fired' threat."

Nathalie Roman offers a capsule comparison of AquaLogic Service Bus and Oracle Enterprise Service Bus.

In addition to being an informative examination of Enterprise 2.0 issues, Billy Cripe's post is an excellent example of how to blog.

David Dorf discusses Cisco's Lean Retail Architecture, "a network-centric (surprise!) approach to handling distributed systems."

David Chapell weighs in on the SOA is Dead debate with a call for "a working plan in place to communicate between IT and the business to ensure that the right services are being built at the right level of granularity so that applications, which leverage those services, can have the flexibility and agility to meet the increasing and ever changing demands from the business. And a way to govern that process…."