Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

SOA and Downsizing

In Does SOA threaten developer jobs?, much is said about supposed concerns that developers now have over SOA adoption.

So, one might surmise that Jacquard Loom developers once felt insecure about the goings on in assembler and C development, and that C developers once lost sleep over OO and Java development.

So, supposedly, modern developers in general are living in fear that enterprise SOA directives will take their job away? Not likely feared. Not likely true.

Feared?

If anything, developers are ready to make their systems more efficient and/or agile. Only bad developers want to retain old disgusting decrepit code. Only bad developers like to hamper the efforts of forward thinking change. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of bad developers out there. But in the long run, bad developers usually become testers, don’t they? ;-P

True?

SOA is about business agility applied to IT productivity. Downsizing development staff is about as likely as OO reuse once was. If anything, IT staff will swell (and productivity with it).