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Last week I had the opportunity to join a podcast debate with Ronan Bradley, Joe McKendrick and David Linthicum, looking at the question of reuse within SOA initiatives - why is it difficult, and should it be the thing we're aiming for, anyway? Perhaps it was disappointing that there wasn't much disagreement: nevertheless I think we hit on a lot of good points.

From my perspective the things that came out were:
- don't fall into the trap of creating services "because you can" - that way you're almost certain to fail in even promoting service use, let alone reuse
- focus on the "A" of SOA - "it's the architecture, stupid"
- look at reuse as one part of the overall value of SOA - along with more flexible infrastructure and applications; lower risk software projects; more business-comprehensible systems; and so on
- when looking at vendor case studies and marketing messages around reuse, take all claims with a big pinch of salt.

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