This goes beyond the idea of SOA or public APIs to a deeper level of design.

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In England there are 32, 482 Super Output Areas (SOA) on which the research is based.

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What's impressive is how ratings for heavily serialized cable shows like "Dexter" and "SOA" can continually grow.

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For organizations with well-functioning SOA, it may be easy to answer the above questions in favor of moving forward with cloud.

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The SOA branch said ConocoPhillips China had made little progress in checking for potential oil spill sources and preventing more spills.

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The SOA for E-Government Conference held April 12 at Mitre headquarters in McLean, Va emphasized the importance of SOA to cloud computing architectures.

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Even organizations that shunned SOA now have one.

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The SOA and partnering organizations also conducted research of their own into the crisis, and their findings placed primary blame on the key assumption utilized by both modelers and the banks when they assessed and priced the massive risk that caused the recent crisis.

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