I think the RM is great, and I agree with 98%+ of it which is pretty spectacular for a specification like that. I think a goal of SOA is to standardise the use of IT, which is only a little bit away from the re-use goal.
I think the RM is also important as it gives a base from which to disagree, otherwise its just disagreement in the clouds. Steve 2008/9/29 Nick Gall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> One challenge I've seen around the "reuse" question is that IT folks >> think about reuse and business folks thing about "use". People don't >> "reuse" finance or procurement, they "use" it. Now how do you get >> people to agree to a central procurement shared service (business >> concept) rather than departmental procurement operations? The answer >> is that you have a business change programme to drive that behaviour >> home. >> >> How many SOA programmes have a business change programme as an >> integral part? Is their a correlation between the lack of business >> change and the lack of reuse, or use? I'd bet heavily on yes. >> >> My personal view is that re-use isn't the goal, its "use" but >> unfortunately in IT we can do the down loading of a library that the >> first requires but rarely can we do the business change required for >> the later. > > Given your enthusiasm for the OASIS SOA RM, I'm surprised that your personal > view appears to be at odds with the RM's view that reuse IS the goal. > But that's the great thing about SOA, anyone's personal views of it are just > as valid as anyone else's or as any group's. <grin> > > -- Nick >
