It beware: Service-oriented architectures were supposed to be all about multivendor mashups and open standards, breaking applications up into services that can be easily stitched back together in new ways. But though SOA vendors still tout that path for applications, lately they're not practicing what they preach. It seems every one of them is buying up the competition or getting acquired, as they seek to build their offerings into suites that promise to fulfill all SOA needs at once.
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