Retiring the Four-Platform Framework
ZapThink recently offered a critique of Gartner’s “Four-Platform Framework” for Web Services:
“we have seen a recurring vision for Web Services that has outlived its questionable usefulness at representing how the market is implementing and producing products for real-world Web Services and SOA solutions – namely Gartner’s Four-Platform Framework of Web Services.”
For the most part, I agree with the analysis. They gointo some detailed analysis, buttheir analysis is summed up by the quote, “the Four-Platform Framework is an example of what ZapThink calls a “horseless carriage” mentality. That is, the framework applies traditional ways of thinking about existing markets to new, emerging markets.”