This is a very close approximation of reality. It is not all that complicated, right? Let's agree!
As the author of the piece that started this discussion I should unveil the fact that the original article said many more things than "Integration is SOA" or some such - and that Mr. Natis, who I quoted actually said many things beyond 'SOA is integration.' during the course of his Las Vegas presentation. One thing that the article said explicitly was "Several years into the SOA era of application and integration development, SOA continues on without a full consensus opinion of what SOA is." And I cannot say that the present discussion does not buttress such an assertion. The article also paraphrased Elvis Costello who asked 'What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?" In this case the question is: 'What's so funny - or complicated, or hard to get - about shareable, swappable and modular?'
