I feel a lot of the pain he mentions. I remember designing a SOA system many years ago where transaction sharing across web services would save a ton of effort

I feel a lot of the pain he mentions. I remember designing a SOA system many years ago where transaction sharing across web services would save a ton of effort writing the rollback logic that would be needed otherwise. Went to the Oracle web site and saw it supports WS-*, awesome! That must include WS-AtomicTransaction and whatnot. Went to a solution specialist and he said sure you can do transaction sharing! Just export your EJB as a web service and use JTA! Fire up the technology and get things running - not supported at all. Research a bit more - more technical Oracle employees on official forums pointing out it isn't working either. Ugh. They wasted so much of my time by lying and saying they supported something they didn't back then. Definitely not happy with those old crappy systems the article makes fun of every couple paragraphs, nor the whole sales culture where they try to sell me something that doesn't actually fit my needs.