Who would have thought: Distributed application services (SOA, in the new lingo) are hard:

Some industry insiders are noticing that few developers have a firm grasp on the skills they require to migrate to service-oriented architectures and manage the complexity of accessing and manipulating data.

Wow, there's a piece of information that was news... back around, say, 1992 or so. I must be getting cynical - I'm seeing too many things go in complete circles in this industry.

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