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By: David Linthicum
Apr. 3, 2008 02:00 PM

I get these about once a week: an e-mail from a Yahoo or Google e-mail account that talks about issues within a large enterprise that are related to building their first instance of SOA.

The fact is that most of these e-mails are not around proper approaches or the right enabling technology; they are around the people issues. Specifically, the emerging existence of Dumb SOA Guy(s), or what I call DSGs.

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David S. Linthicum is an internationally known thought leader in the EAI, SOA, and Web 2.0 space. He is also the former CEO of the Linthicum Group, LLC, a leading think tank in the area of enterprise architecture and use of next generation Internet. Moreover, he was the CTO of Mercator Software and has held key management roles with a number of organizations including CTO of Software AG, Mobil Oil, EDS, AT&T, and Ernst and Young. Linthicum was an associate professor of computer science for eight years, and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities. He keynotes at many leading technology conferences, and has several well read columns and blogs. He has authored 10 books, 3 which were best sellers, including the ground breaking books “Enterprise Application Integration” and “B2B Application Integration.

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