Firstly, I'm very happy to announce the WSO2 SOA Summer School. Basically, we are offering a set of free SOA online training courses throughout the summer. Aimed particularly at helping people who are affected by the downturn, these classes cover a wide range of subjects from Enterprise SOA patterns through scalability and security.
Picking up on this, JP Morgenthal has written a blog entry "Is Vendor Based SOA Training a Good Idea"? Its an excellent blog entry from JP and as usual he thinks things through pretty deeply. And he has some very good points. I agree that vendor based SOA training has been an issue. I've written on the negative impact that the large ESB vendors have had on the SOA landscape before.
That said, I know that people will get value from our Summer School. Our approach is simple: we know that there will undoubtedly be some WSO2 product bias in these courses: the technical examples will be based on our and Apache's Open Source code and frameworks, and of course our thinking and approach affects the way we build those products too. But please be clear - these courses are NOT product pitches. We are talking about basic principles, approaches and architecture that span across products. And of course we get a huge amount of input from the Open Source community that integrates into our thinking and feeds into these classes.
My advice: if you think these classes will be useful, attend, make up your own mind and don't be afraid to challenge us as well.
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