TC's full quote was "We consume a significant portion of the overall contract generating a functional specification whose sole use is to serve as the outline for the acceptance test. Those who choose to argue this point might like to explain the recurring customer comment 'You did an excellent job …

I find the value proposition for a Service Oriented Architecture to be agility and simplicity.

See Linthicum's Real World SOA blog postings, specifically "Core Value of an SOA... " Here's the interesting quote: "this does not mean that reuse is not a core value of SOA, but its value is much …