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Written by Joost de Vries on 31-01-2008 19:35
Those are a lot of interesting points you're raising.
I'd like to highlight your scepsis regarding the desirability of introducing an intermediary component. I think central components have a tendency to become major barriers in innovation in organisations. So your advice to muster great restraint in introducing them sounds very wise to me. Can it be that the fondness to introduce central components is directly correlated to their single defining characteristic: they're involved in everything that transcends the scope of a single project/application/organisational unit and as a result represent power to architects/ISPs/vendors? A more charitable explanation is that they provide a locus to enforce standardisation to prevent maintainance nightmares.
Personally I'm under the impression that a central component should be as lean as possible and play a very commoditised role: it's services should be well understood by the organisation and easy/simple/quick to provide. So that it's like the use of tcp/ip networks in organisations or like the use of commoditised applications (ERP) are meant to be.
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