Let's Make This More Confusing; Shall We?
Lee Gomes wrote an interesting article in today's WSJ (the Boom Town Series), about growth in a mature industry.
He's coined the term, "Ford's Law," outlining that growth in a mature industry happens at less than 10% -- citing that current growth for business technology spending will rise "3% or so." (http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1032740086607641513,00.html?mod=technology%5Ffeatured%5Fstories%5Fhs) -- [Subscription Req]. This part is great.
However, in his piece, he described "Web services," as and I quote, "when companies use the Internet to do business with each other." Arrghhh! How painful. I dropped him a note and I'm sure I'm not the only one he proposed a less innane definition, perhaps something involving software components w/ standards-based interfaces that can be called over an IP-based network or something like that ...
3:07:28 PM 
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