Morning Thoughts 24

• Vendors aren’t understanding SOA. That is the claim of ING Insurance. It seems to me that is creative incompetence. I still haven’t figured out what would make a vendor want to sell a real SOA solution and not try and get you locked into their product line. It seems like vendors would be much more interested in SAAS. (via Joe McKendrick)
• Jeff Atwood writes that it is better for developers to learn on the battlefield instead of in the classroom. I would say it is that way with most things. The classroom teaches you the theories and principles which you then need to apply in the business world. Each is important and work together to give you real knowledge.
• Kenny Rogers of the Detroit Tigers will start the season on the DL with a "tired arm." I guess rubbing that "foreign substance" on his hand is more taxing than it appears.
• Microsoft announced the XBOX 360 elite the other day. It will be interesting to see how this impacts the competition between Microsoft  and Sony in the console wars (kind of like the Clone Wars without the awlful director). THe only surprise is that it wasn’t released in brown…the new black.