Microsoft architect touts SOAs
eWeek | at | by Mike
Leading Microsoft architect Don Box said the world of services and service-oriented architectures will eclipse object-oriented programming as more developers become familiar with the technology.
Taking a cue from Brad Cox (inventor of the Objective C language), Box, XML architect with Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft, likened objects to software-based integrated circuits and said programmers would do better to focus on services. Box spoke at the XML Web Services One conference here.
"Very few people work in a chip plant, and they all wear hairnets," Box quipped. "There are so many more people who are needed to take the chips and put them onto boards."