Re: [soa-rm] Service-Orientation, SOA, RM vs. RA, etc.: Suggestion To Bring Us Closer Together

[Michael Stiefel <development@reliablesoftware.com>]

Understood and agreed.

Ambiguity is often very useful. One one hand as you have said in a previous 
email, that we need to define what a SOA is so that it does not became just 
the latest fad. On the other hand, without the ambiguity around what a SOA 
is, its marketechture, and the accompanying buzz, we would not have this TC.

As for poor Plato and Socrates, I can see the dialog now.. "Glaucon, we 
have now disposed of your definition of justice, Jeeves, what do you 
think...."  :-)

Michael

At 09:31 AM 5/20/2005, Matthew MacKenzie wrote:
>A lack of precision can often fuel a fruitful conversation, within
>reason...I agree.  My main concern with this TC is "painter's eye"
>syndrome :-)
>
>I wonder what Plato & Socrates would have thought of this?  Could
>they even imagine a day when socratic dialog could be performed
>between a human and his favorite search engine?
>
>;-)
>
>-matt
>
>On 20-May-05, at 9:22 AM, Michael Stiefel wrote:
>>
>>In considering concepts of SOA, RM, RA, etc. we may have to allow
>>for some lack of precision, and rely on intuition because of the
>>nature of the subject matter.