I like this rant in the BileBlog - no one does rants as well as Hani. Here's some of the milder stuff I'm willing to paste here - but go read it for a few devastating (and hilarious) take-downs:

I think one of the flaws of Mark's talk is that he's forgetting (or is unaware of) his audience. They aren't, as Floyd would like to think, clever leader types. They're just everyday grunts who have enough spare time and meaningless enough jobs that they can fart off on TSS every other day, interspersed with the odd person who has been sufficiently beaten with the cluebat.

The whole SOA myth makes for a great sales pitch by IBM types to high level 'architect' types whose job involves little more than doodling with crayons and going on IBM sponsored golfing trips. It does not, sadly, translate well to gruntspeak. us grunts are simple folk, we like code examples, we like concrete classes, and by god, we like xml. Anything else and most of us will be flailing about helplessly trying, and failing, to relate to the subject matter.

Read the whole thing, as they say