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Subject: So What is a Service Ecosystem Anyway?
Frank asked the question in the Subject Line in last week's meeting, and I thought it might be wiser to discuss a possible dealbreaker on the list rather than in the next meeting. I suspect that this suggestion is the result of reaching a point where we're getting stale or stalemated after slogging away at this so long. Regardless... I reviewed what I thought was the most relevant section of the RAF that deals with this: Section 1.2 Service Oriented Architecture -- An Ecosystems Perspective. I still don't have a specific problem with this as the consistent perspective that informs the rest of the document as a foundation for more specific or solution-specific RAs. However, if anything might need to be added to that section I would add a brief reworking of the Wikipedia's citation from "Christopherson, RW (1996) Geosystems: An Introduction to Physical Geography Prentice-Hall Inc. (I have substituted SOA RAF terms for those in square brackets "[]") A Service Ecosystem [ecosystem] is a [(sic)natural] unit consisting of all services, service providers and service consumers [plants, animals and micro-organisms (biotic factors)] in an area functioning together with all of the business [non-living physical (abiotic)] factors of the environment. A service ecosystem is a completely independent unit of interdependent entities [organisms] which share the same habitat. Service ecosystems usually form a number of service chains [food webs] which show the interdependence of the services [organisms] within the ecosystem. (addition) It is important to note that the Service Ecosystems Perspective in this context concerns itself mostly with the relationships and transactions that span enterprise boundaries. Cheers, Rex -- Rex Brooks President, CEO Starbourne Communications Design GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison Berkeley, CA 94702 Tel: 510-898-0670
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