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Subject: Re: [soa-rm-ra] So What is a Service Ecosystem Anyway?
That is kind of nice :) But I think that there are some crucial differences. A service chain is not the same kind of thing as a food chain. A prairie dog does not want to be food for the hawks. Frank On May 11, 2009, at 7:52 AM, Rex Brooks wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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