SOA without Web Services

It seems that you can build an SOA event-driven system on Java Message Services and Enterprise Java Beans-based services without a Web Service. For more go to: http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=904

New Life for Main Frames / Don't Deep Six Them Yet!

Many companies are deciding to "Modernize" their Main Frames rather than replace them. Not everything old is useless! for more, read: http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=907

70 Million Blogs with 120,000 New Blogs per day

"In April the blog search engine Technorati reported that it was tracking 70 million blogs, with 120,000 new ones arriving every day." Read more on:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133119/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws

SOA On-Demand Becoming a Reality

If you've kept up with SaaS and SOA you know that Salesforce.com does an on-demand SOA solution. Apex is its on-demand development and deployment platform, including a complete development environment, programming language, database, and now the ability to create, expose, and consume Web Services. To Read More go to:
http://soa.sys-con.com/read/393664.htm

Case Study: IBM

The Case Study on IBM's use of SOA was very interesting. If I recall correctly, when Lou Gerstner was hired to take over IBM, he stated that he had little knowledge of Informations Systems technology, yet Sandy Carter's book, The New Language of Business, SOA & Web 2.0, seems to credit him with implementing SOA at IBM, and the great success Sandy attributes to SOA at IBM. Your thoughts?