Laying the Foundations of SOA

Following on the heels of the excellent "SOA Governance and Management Methodology" session, IBM's Rob High is laying out the Foundations of Service Oriented Architectures. He is focusing at a high level of looking at "services" as the bridge between business processes and information technology processes. What is good is that he says it does not matter what technology you are talking about, the business owners do not care about what technology is used for the services (J2EE, .Net, Cobol, etc), they just see the services as delivering what they need (not an IBM rah rah approach). That is why it is important that services are independent of the underlying IT Architecture.