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SOA Facts Top 10

Looking at my (small) domain names portfolio recently I was reminded that I own SOA Facts. Had kinda forgotten about it. Curating these submissions was some of the highest fun-to-effort ratio I've had. My top ten favorites:

• SOA is the only thing Chuck Norris can't kill.
• In a battle between a ninja and a jedi, SOA would win.
• SOA can always win at TicTacToe. Even if you go first.
• SOA is just one letter away from SOB. On purpose.
• On the eigth day, God created SOA, then SOA created Rock and Roll.
• Absolute power corrupts absolutely. So does SOA.
• Guns don't kill people, the SOA WS-* stack kills people.
• SOA violates the first and third laws of thermodynamics. But not the second, as all energy flows from SOA.
• SOA is a power source more efficient than nuclear, cleaner than solar/wind, more available than coal, and more geopolitically stable than oil. Its too bad you can't afford it.
• There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what SOA is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

SOA has lost favor, in part to greater pragmatism in the enterprise, but certainly to the Open API / REST movement as well.

For the record - SOA Facts was born at the evening session where the Colorado Software Summit jumped the shark. It later included submissions from luminaries like Don Box (co-creator of SOAP) who admitted disappointment with where WS-* went after his initial contribution. I like to think his submissions (which were good) were part of a cathartic healing process.

Peter Pascale