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The "technology rat-race" wouldn't be such a devastating drain on resources like money, human knowledge and even energy, if the IT world would finally agree on standardization of interfaces. If interfaces would be well-defined and broadly accepted everyone could run at it's own pace with respect to technology refreshes. Not everyone gets a kick out of having the latest and greatest. I take the protocol definitions in the internet space as an example that it is possible to achieve this goal.
So now how do we get to this point? By adopting the "technology independence" principle as stated by TOGAF. In my view the implementation of this principle means that standardization of the interfaces is the road to go. The interfaces then become the structure to hold the technology in place. Replacing individual technology components will not be so disruptive and can therefor be executed at an appropriate moment.
See also my blog post http://www.itarchitecturecoach.com/2008/02/it-standardization-is-result-of.html
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