ArchBeat

"It was an experience, a lot of heated up discussions, extremely strong & powerful arguments. . .and what was most impressive, an immediate common understanding of what service orientation and SOA is about - the business, everything else is second." -- Clemens Utschig-Utschig

"It is good that the manifesto was written by both vendor representatives and independent thought leaders: Both could not get their individual beliefs published but they needed to find a compromise and from what I observed they worked very hard on finding that compromise so unlike many say, the manifesto is not a vendors view! It states clearly you cannot buy SOA through purchasing an ESB! On the other hand, it is not a hard core REST proponents view as well." -- Oracle ACE Director Hajo Normann