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[Thanks to Wade Hong for this pointer. Some excerpts -- BSA]

http://issj.sys-con.com/read/230860.htm



Cassatt Founder and CEO Bill Coleman delivered the opening keynote at the
SOA Web Services Edge at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on Monday, June 5.
Coleman spoke on the topic, "Software Isn't IT Anymore."

Coleman outlined a vision of the future in which broadband access, open
source software, and the creation of true service-oriented architectures
(SOAs) deliver a variety of services to customers who are given much more
choice than they are given today.

Coleman envisioned a future "3.0" era in which operations costs on the
margin "start driving toward zero," in which straight-through processing
becomes the norm, and transparency rules.

"The transformation of business and society is based on the ability to do
things better, faster, and cheaper. As productivity advances we can do more
things for less. (In this environment), the Internet becomes the most
powerful transaction machine in the history of the world. It allows
dramatically increased response to customers. And with SOA, businesses are
more flexible, can be more responsive, and this increases effectiveness."

The "good enough" climate for applications "means horizontal applications
that can be used by anybody. Good enough means were not adding huge value
anymore." He said that the three main categories of enterprise
applications--supply, production, and distribution--"are inefficient if
they're not end-to-end services with straight-through processing."

Coleman also spoke of what he termed the "disintegration of applications
into services," and he termed open source "the accelerator, the world's
first viable model of reusable code" as a primary driver of this process.
This distintegration means companies will literally be able to swap in
modules in the future in a way that they cannot in the typical environment
of vendor lock-in experienced today.





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