“Many banks are attracted to Open Source but, in the words of
Will Smith, ‘Wiki, wiki, why, why?’. Surely you give away your
competitive advantage when you offer your ideas to all and
sundry.“It amazes me the number of times I have encountered discussions
about Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Open Source, Websphere,
Components, Wiki’s and so on. It amazes me for two reasons. One is
that half the time I have no idea what these guys are talking about
and two, many of us were talking about Object-based Developments
over a decade ago. So what’s new? SOA, and its associated pieces,
is nothing new. It is just that it is now mainstream, having been
heavily promoted by IBM, Oracle and other tech players…”