Describing the elephant the different faces of IT as service.

In a well-known fable, a group of blind men are asked to describe an elephant. Each encounters a different part of the animal and, not surprisingly, provides a different description.We see a similar degree of confusion in the IT industry today, as terms such as service-oriented architecture, grid, u...

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Published in:ACM queue : architecting tomorrow's computing. 3, 6 (2005).
Main Author: Foster, Ian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New York ACM 2005
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