---
title: "Getting a little closer to SOA"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/24/getting-a-little-closer-to-soa.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/24/getting-a-little-closer-to-soa.html"
published: "2004-02-24T13:30:00"
updated: "2004-02-24T13:30:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Cool Articles"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Fabrice has written a very good and informative article about what SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is all about. Getting a little closer to SOA If you're not sure what SOA really means, but you keep hearing this…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Getting a little closer to SOA

By Roy Osherove February 24, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 24, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[Fabrice](http://weblogs.asp.net/fmarguerie/archive/2004/02/24/79116.aspx) has written a very good and informative article about what SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is all about.

[Getting a little closer to SOA](http://www.dotnetguru.org/us/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=19&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0)

If you're not sure what SOA really means, but you keep hearing this phrase buzzing over your head, this is a very good place to start. I particularly like that Fabrice does not go overboard with drinking the kool-aid and shows a real world implementation and considerations for when and if you should move into a more SOA like implementation. It's not all black and white and I for one don't like technologies and concepts such as this to be as changing as clothing  fashion. In fact, I bet we're going to see a title in the near future that says “SOA is the new black“. Ugh.

Fabrice seems to have the right tone of things: not too fast, but just enough to get you going.

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