Today, I chanced to attend the seminar on SOA conducted by NASSCOM in Hyderabad. There were 5 speakers in total from different companies who gave different dimensions and perspectives on SOA. The talks were pretty impressive except for the one with Case Studies. Although, the case studies were good, it was dull and boring.
The best talk was from Santosh Mohanty from TCS on Nuts and Bolts of SOA. Though, the speaker had a typical Oriya accent [pipty for fifty], he enthralled the audience with the content and hilarious tit bits. The acronyms given for the Nuts and Bolts is funny. NUTS - Networked Users of Technology and Services, BOLTS - Business Objectives by Linking Technology and Services.
I received some feedback on a similar talk organized at Bangalore from a colleague that it was not so impressive. The speakers are experts in the field of SOA and if any attendee was expecting some hard code techie stuff, the obvious response would have been "Whatz a Developer doing in this conference?". If I had attended this seminar expecting some geekiness on SOA, I'd be thoroughly disappointed. The perspective was overview of SOA, making it work for your organization, imperativeness of SOA governance and processes.
