HP Services, Hewlett Packard Company
Len Fehskens leads the worldwide Architecture Profession Office for HP Services. Len majored in Computer Science at MIT, and has almost 40 years of experience in the IT business as both an individual contributor and a manager, within both product engineering and services business units. He has worked for Digital Equipment Corporation, Data General Corporation, Prime Computer, Compaq and Hewlett Packard. He is the lead inventor on 6 software patents on the object oriented management of distributed systems and was recently TOGAF-8 certified. Len's personal interests include, among other things, his cats, photography, sport rocketry and music.

Presentation
Service Oriented Architecture: Old Wine in New Bottles?
SOA is the latest manifestation of the industry's evolving notion of what the proper unit of modularization should be. Realizing the promises of SOA is dependent on addressing the same non-technical issues (primarily governance) that ultimately determined the success (or failure) of subroutines and objects as earlier canonical units of modularity. Much of the current focus on SOA is on the relatively easy part - the supporting infrastucture that enables SOA - but there's very little discussion about these enduring non-technical issues. This session reviews these issues and the implications for the successful adoption of SOA.