Wednesday, August 30, 2006

SOA Governance

Yes a SOA instance need to be governed because it is not self sustainable, but an EOA (Ecosystem Oriented Architecture) instance has no governance: at least we can have regulations in an EOA. Hence this blog shall be renamed "EOA Governace"

But in any case, thinking of a governace for an EOA is a contradiction in term; it's not possibile to govern an ecosystem, any ecosystem, and also a DES (Digital Ecosystem) as such. What might have sense to consider is the governance of the maintenance process of the EOA product, i.e. the actual project that realize the EOA, not it's actual instance.

As an example; the DBE is a tool (rather complex ok) that might give rise to several instances (the vulgar term that be used instead is "installations"). The creation and maintenance of the first can be governed, not the latter that can at least be "regulated".