Gartner’s top 10 technologies for 2008: SOA precursors; fabric computing; Real world Web; WOA

Gartner outlined its top 10 strategic technology areas for 2008 and many roads lead to service oriented architecture.The top 10 is off to the right and there aren’t any huge surprises. Who didn’t see green IT and virtualization being listed? But what’s notable are all of the SOA precursors to be found. Business process modeling (No. 3), metadata management (No. 4), mashups and composite apps (No. 6) and Web platforms (No. 7) all add up to SOA down...