Re: [soa-rm-ra] So What is a Service Ecosystem Anyway?

[Francis McCabe <frankmccabe@mac.com>]

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
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