The 'trade press' doesn't help, either. Every article has a different definition. Every 'consultant/analyst' report/<insert your favorite color here> -paper says everyone should be doing 'it', and if you're not, you're not 'agile', or competitive, or ... Major FUD factor here.
And then the next article discusses how expensive it is, but that you should not look at/for ROI on all that investment in money, time, etc, but instead look at businesss flexibility and agility. 'They' talk about 'it' here, too, a lot, and the SOA term is thrown around very liberally, but more because it's the 'in' thing, and because 'Gartner says... ', than anything else. Cynically, Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Evans, Kevin R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6/13/2007 4:16 AM >>> I love the SOA comment...it's a big buzzword around here right now. I am sure that SOA means different things to different people. K ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
