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Google is brilliant ;) 2008/6/11 Gervas Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Are any of you good caricaturists? If so how would you like to knock > up a couple of cartoons of pigs, bulldogs etc wearing lipstick and > dressed appropriately so that members of this Group might better > visualise the underlying meaning of these expressions? > > Gervas > > --- In service-orientated-architecture@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Jones" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Of course! >> >> Another variant: >> >> "lipstick on the ERP bulldog" >> >> Steve >> >> 2008/6/11 Michael Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > I love your expressions, Steve ("lipstick on the application > pig")! May I >> > start quoting them? >> > - Michael >> > >> > ----- Original Message ---- >> > From: Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > To: service-orientated-architecture@yahoogroups.com >> > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:41:36 AM >> > Subject: Re: [service-orientated-architecture] Re: Definition of SOA >> > >> > +1 >> > >> > Its why my entry point on "is it SOA?" is "show me your service >> > diagram" if you can't show me the services and then show me how they >> > have been realised then its just lipstick on the application pig. >> > >> > Steve >> > >> > 2008/6/10 Todd Biske <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com>: >> >> >> >> On Jun 10, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Rob Eamon wrote: >> >>> A tweak might be: "(a) service-oriented >> >>> architecture is (any) architecture (business, enterprise, etc., >> >>> comprising services, describing the relationships between them." >> >>> >> >> >> >> I've used this description in discussions in the past. I define >> >> services and then define SOA as an architecture that leverages > service >> >> consumers and service providers as a primary component. That's why >> >> I'd say that most IT shops today have application oriented >> >> architecture, at least at the enterprise IT level. >> >> >> >> -tb >> >> Todd Biske >> >> http://www.biske. com/blog/ >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >