Quotes by Anne Thomas Manes

“Most people are getting beyond the prototype stage, and theyre starting serious [Web services] deployments. A lot of companies are not really coordinating efforts; theyre letting individual teams do what they want.”

“Once the chickens are out of the hen house, its harder to get them back inside.”

“Theres a lot of smaller vendors doing real cutting-edge things and theyve become pretty good at working together.”

“Its remarkable that theyve been able to hang on and remain a reasonably sized company. They were not going to survive trying to be an IDE (integrated development environment) company because nobody pays for IDEs anymore.”

“The IDE business has been a dying breed for about 10 years. Its really hard to compete with free?especially when the free stuff is really good.”

“Everybody Im now talking to is working on SOA. People have at least an inkling of what it means and theyre starting to plan it.”

“The idea is that down the road all this stuff magically starts working together, and at that point you have this ability to assemble application systems from these shared reusable services. Of course, that is the dream behind Web services in the first place.”

“You can find WS-Security in all SOA products, but almost no ones using it. Its amazing how few people are using it.”

“Ive been berating the ESB market because its lacking in governance. This purchase really addresses that for Sonic.”

“The fact that they changed the data model is my biggest concern. It forces us to learn something different. All the tooling you had to compile the old WSDL will not work anymore.”