RE: Application design & architecture

>It is being worked on by brilliant minds and thought leaders who have a

>much better view of business than is reflected inside these programmer
walls. 

And therein lays the problem. I actually _like_ SOA, and it brings many
interesting things to the table. But let's face it, the iSeries is an
SMB machine (with a few exceptions.) We're not going to design and
architect the next Social Security System on an iSeries. Quite often
those "brilliant minds" contain too much theory and not enough reality.
SOA is really great, it's true, but there's also the application program
that needs to be complete and on the user's desktop next Tuesday, SOA or
not. 

-Walden