100 and counting: oak trees and acorns
Well, I have to say I'm surprised!
Our only-slightly-tongue-in-cheek SOA 2.0 petition (
stop the madness!) has now attracted over 100 signatures.
I think we're still a long way from beating back the tide of
Oracle's misplaced SOA 2.0 marketing messages, but I'm dead chuffed we've even got this far. When we recorded our recent
SOA 2.0 podcast episode I said that when I created the petition, I thought if we got to 20 or 30 signatures, that would be pretty cool. (That bit didn't make it into the edited audio, though, as I had got into an extensive ramble by that point, and we couldn't put our listeners through that kind of pain).
What's particularly gratifying is that roughly 65% of the signatories appear to be real people, doing real jobs - not representatives of Oracle's competitors, or talking heads like us.
Now, I'm getting a bit cocky and thinking that 500 would be a good target?
Go on!
