"I realised on seeing it on my shelf the other day that this is one of the things that I've often not stressed when advising people on doing SOA to give themself more agility, namely making sure that people have time in which to be more agile."

"This move towards service development pretty much demands that you move towards a service oriented organisation."

Oh great. I was right. Now I have to tell the folks at work.

'There is a widespread change in mindset in the application groups from "What functionality do I need" to "What services do I need, and how do I present them?"'

"If you look at Web 2.0 companies that are having success, such as Facebook, flickr, Friendster, and MySpace, they're all running a lightweight architecture, the open source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) stack...