Three words: metadata, metadata, metadata
It's good to see
other commentators looking beyond today's SOA "sound and fury", and pointing out that serious SOA initiatives will be very difficult to implement without real consideration of managing service metadata throughout the service lifecycle.
"If you can't see it, you can't manage it". Building quality systems efficiently - no matter what the architecture - demands that you manage change effectively and verifiably.
Last but not least (I couldn't resist it) - Yankee - come on!
Those forecast models need tweaking now the dot.com boom is over...
