SOA is dead

Anne Thomas Manes recently declared SOA dead. This failed experiment was suppose to reduce companies costs and increase their agility. But as we've seen the economy fall, it has not held up to its promises.

The demise of SOA is tragic for the IT industry. Organizations desperately need to make architectural improvements to their application portfolios. Service-orientation is a prerequisite for rapid integration of data and business processes; it enables situational development models, such as mashups; and it’s the foundational architecture for SaaS and cloud computing. (Imagine shifting aspects of your application portfolio to the cloud without enabling integration between on-premise and off-premise applications.) Although the word “SOA” is dead, the requirement for service-oriented architecture is stronger than ever.

What do you think about the current state of SOA? Is it indeed dead?