http://blogs.msdn.com/nick_wong/archive/tags/SOA/default.aspxTags: SOAen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/nick_wong/archive/2007/03/03/can-i-have-2-kilograms-of-soa.aspxSat, 03 Mar 2007 09:41:58 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1793751niwong0http://blogs.msdn.com/nick_wong/comments/1793751.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nick_wong/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1793751<p>We had a Microsoft Corp visitor in town&nbsp;over the last week&nbsp;- the unique&nbsp;and incomparable Mr. <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/default.aspx">Vittorio Bertocci</a>.&nbsp;My colleague Linda&nbsp;had&nbsp;the pleasure of&nbsp;touring and visiting many of our enterprise customers with him, talking up the core .NET 3.0 pillars (WCF, WF and Windows CardSpace.)</p> <p>A persistent question&nbsp;prompted the following cartoon.&nbsp;Lifted shamelessly from&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/archive/2007/03/01/can-i-have-2-kg-of-soa.aspx">Vittorio's blog post</a>. I didn't know you could draw, dude! <img alt="smile_regular" src="http://spaces.live.com/rte/emoticons/smile_regular.gif">&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/archive/2007/03/01/can-i-have-2-kg-of-soa.aspx" atomicselection="true"><img style="margin: 0px" src="http://www.maseghepensu.it/VittoSOAJoke_s.png"></a> </p> <p>While we take a gentle dig and laugh at ourselves, this does underscore the point that we&nbsp;need to do a better job&nbsp;at helping our customers truly understand SOA.&nbsp;</p> <p>PS:&nbsp;I am reminded again&nbsp;of a somewhat&nbsp;intense discussion a year back regarding service orientation, SOI and SOA by some of Microsoft's illuminaries.</p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1793751" width="1" height="1">FunSOA