Is SOA IT?

In a recent post, Joe McKendrick highlights a topic that's perhaps not always given the emphasis it deserves....SOA is mostly about business services, while IT is mostly about technology.

This distinction is critical since the approach, framework, processes, skills, organizational structure, etc. for governing business services will likely have significant differences when compared to the governing of IT.

To the degree that IT is cloud-centric (i.e., homogeneous infrastructure that is largely commoditized), the differences will be especially sharp since, SOA ownership will likely be much more decentralized than IT ownership.