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Of Laundries and Lego

The Laundry Model for SOA
A common analogy for SOA is to describe it as lego blocks.  At one level that works reasonably well, but the same analogy holds for object orientation or structured programming, so there must be something more.  The CBDI site suggested the analogy of laundry, and I have to confess I really like this model and have used it with several customers as well as internal people here at Oracle.  Let me expand on the laundry model.
SOA is about Services
It might seem obvious but service orientation is about changing your thinking (orienting yourself) to think about IT

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