A new report published by Butler Group reveals the competitive nature of the market for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment technologies. According to the report, ‘SOA Platforms’, SOA vendors need to acquire a ‘critical mass’ market share in order to sustain the ongoing development investment that will be needed, and to prosper in a market that is set to become commoditised. For enterprises the adoption of SOA provides significant potential to improve the value they derive from their IT investments, in terms of increased flexibility, improved use of assets, alignment with business objectives, and reduced integration costs.

Vitria Technology and Red Hat have announced a collaboration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions to the marketplace.