MSDN Solution Architecture Center: A Business-Oriented Foundation for Service Orientation

MSDN Solution Architecture Center: A Business-Oriented Foundation for Service Orientation: "Service-orientation, with the advent of Web services, is the latest technology solution put forward to automate business activities. (For a good overview of SOA and related concepts in Microsoft's connected systems strategy, please refer to Service Orientation and Its Role in Your Connected Systems Strategy.) The concepts embodied by service-orientation evolved out of long-standing efforts to modularize and distribute complex computer systems that reflect and support the reality of the distributed business world."