Steve Jones wrote:
> Businesses are service oriented, businesses deliver services.
True. But not necessarily in a sense that corresponds to SOA "services".
Consider a "full service" Hospital. It can be regarded as providing the
following "business services":
* Accommodation
* Nursing care
* Medical Specialist care (consultants)
* Pathology
* Catering
* Operating Theatre
These are business services, in the sense that they could be (and often
are) outsourced to different service providers.
There is, I think, a significant semantic gap between these "business
services" and service in the SOA sense. How is this gap bridged?
Rgds
Ashley
