I am not actually convinced that the IT industry has even reached the "rivet" level
of building architecture... "welding" would seem a stretch goal at this point ;-) From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Eamon Sent: 11 September 2007 01:33 To: [email protected] Subject: [service-orientated-architecture] Re: SOA is about technology! Intuitively, it seems reasonable that technology doesn't matter at the higher levels. But I think that may be a limiting view. I'm watching a Modern Marvels episode on the History channel titled "Welding." Before the technology of welding came along, buildings used rivets to join the beams of a building. The narration of the story actually stated that welding allowed architects and engineers to design buildings in ways they never could before. Using rivets, the only shape large buildings could take (for the most part) were boxes--and much of the interior was consumed by columns and beams. Welded joints allow for more flexible shapes and larger interior spans. I don't know that we currently have such a break-through technology such as welding over rivets in IT, but it may wise not to ignore technology at the "higher" levels simply because it is technology. -Rob --- In [email protected] <mailto:service-orientated-architecture%40yahoogroups.com> , Dennis Djenfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I may put my two cents I would say that SOA is guided by service > oriented principles that can be applied both to the business > architecture and the technical architecture, hence SOA is about > both. > > On the higest level of your business architecture the technology > doesn't matter, but as you start to break down that high level view > into lower levels the technology will matter. [remainder snipped]
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