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SOA Name Change?
I got an email from Pheloxi in the Netherlands who informed me that SOA is the Dutch acronym for sexually transmitted disease. I guess if InfoWorld does a European version of the SOA forum, they may want to change the name. :-)
Posted by windley on May 17, 2006 3:41 PM
Comment from Pat Ekman at May 17, 2006 4:39 PM
Is there any TLA (three-letter acronym) that isn't overloaded many times over? Even STD can be either sexually transmitted disease or severe tire damage. SOA is also already very overloaded. It's a DNS record (start of authority), the Society of Actuaries, School of the Americas, several colleges use it for their Schools of Architecture, a Dutch term for STD, the Surbanes-Oxley Act, the electronics terms "safe operating area," and "semiconductor optical amplifier," and now service-oriented architecture.
If you want to use a TLA, you can try to CYA, but ultimately, you'll find there's something it's already used for that you won't like and you'll be SOL.
Comment from Phil Windley at May 17, 2006 4:52 PM
Yeah, you know your in trouble when almost every license plate you see makes sense.
Comment from Loek at May 18, 2006 5:07 AM
Phil, I wrote about this a couple of months ago: http://loekb.blogspot.com/2006/02/soa-soa-sba-and-sda.html. FYI: the Dutch IT people appear to have no trouble with the acronym, in fact all conferences just have the name "SOA" in it. It is a shame though that you have to explain all the time to non-IT people what you are REALLY doing when you say you are an SOA expert ("SOA expert? Don't you mean pervert?") ;-).