Creating the cumulus

From The Economist print edition, Oct 23rd 2008
Online version

"Software will be transformed into a combination of services"
This article focuse on IT services and explain in a way what an IT service is and how it can be imagined. It also shows a new software paradigm, expanding the idea about subroutines into the idea of services which can be viewed as these subroutines but also offered on the remote basis across the web. Article has revealed the need for better broadband connectivity as a prerequisite for services to be broadly accepted.

The concept of SOA (Service oriented architecture) is also presented and it is correctly stated that despite millions of dollars spent on advertising and promoting SOA, it really hasn't taken off yet. Another parts of the article are focused on web-based applications and web services and a question, whether these applications can ever replace desktop clients (laptots, netbooks, etc.) fully, or not. I agree with the point made in the article that instead of replacement, web services and web hosted applications will contribute to the software and won't really replace it. At least not in the next decade according to my opinion.