For my mum "Its about thinking about things in terms of groups, sensible logical groups of 'stuff' that do similar things and that you think of in a similar way. You then build and manage things around these groups, its like having business departments but with IT systems."
For a sixty year old with no clue about computers "Like planning a cricket match, you've got all the different positions and you've got to keep moving them around to get the best result, so some of your services are your Andrew Flintoffs that can do loads of things, others are like your Don Bradman and brilliant at one thing, some are good fielders and some are good in the slips. Players are services and the positions is you configuring them to do what you want". Booze Free in Southern France? Aren't there laws against that? On 26/11/06, Gervas Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thank you, Ashley. Your cultural level is far too rarefied for a Brit in IT :). This adaptation of yours is more of what a suit would describe as a strapline. Here's a thought on a booze-free (yes, life can be sad at times, even in Southern France) Sunday afternoon: as well as a crisp technical definition, can anyone come up with brief descriptions of SOA that make sense respectively to: (1) their mother, assuming for the exercise that she is not a Professor of Computer Science; (2) a clear-thinking business person of about sixty years old who does not love to use a PC directly, i.e. tap away at the keyboeard. Gervas --- In [email protected]<service-orientated-architecture%40yahoogroups.com>, "Ashley at Metamaxim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about: "That architecture, no better architecture than which can be imagined"? > > (Adapted from Anselm of Canterbury). > > Rgds > Ashley > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gervas Douglas > To: [email protected]<service-orientated-architecture%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 2:30 PM > Subject: [service-orientated-architecture] Another Crack at Defining SOA > > > No one anywhere in the known universe has yet come up with a > definition of SOA which commands widespread acceptance. Perhaps it is > time we had another crack at it. > > Over to you ladies and gents... > > Gervas >
