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SOA & Software as a service

Any more than five years ago, a conference on application infrastructure wouldn’t have had all that much to talk about. Delegates might have discussed the failure of the application service provider (ASP) business model, perhaps, or compared the technical performance of various application servers.

But in 2009, it is arguably the hottest topic in IT. The intervening period has seen revolution upon revolution in the way businesses build, deliver and use their applications. Service-oriented architecture was followed by software-as-a-service, which in turn has been followed by cloud computing.

That leaves IT directors, when considering the best way to... read more...


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