>I am clearly in the far too many group because I don't even know what SOA stands for. Lord, we have more acronyms than the military.

Don't worry - There will be new ones next month to replace the ones all the pundits argue about this month, and they'll all jump ship for the new ones.

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>>I agree, it is overused, but far too many people don't understand SOA and automatically equate it to web services (which is only part of SOA).
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>>>>Think of it as ASP.NET MVC is a comptitor to WebForms. WPF is a competitor to WinForms. WCF is used for inter-component communication (think named pipes, web services, etc).
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>>>I'd prefer to think of WCF as being used for inter-services communications in a SOA ... kind of like SOA glue.
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>>>"Components" is an over-used term. <g>
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>>>~~Bonnie