Robin Harris just posted a near-heresy on his ZDNet blog: he thinks that SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) is overhyped, and will die a painful death as businesses discover the difficulties in monetizing it and making it reliable. Come on now--hype, in our industry? Please! Actually...I agree that we are indeed well into a hype cycle regarding web services, and we would do well to make sure that SOA doesn't become the next "Golden Hammer." This is a term coined by Brown, Malveau et al. in their...