Service-Oriented Architecture For Enterprise Applications

“Enterprise applications need hardware infrastructure and software platform to run. A software platform for enterprise applications provides the framework to develop and deploy them. It includes a run-time environment of in some cases a container that provides a set of services to run programs written with a programming language. Programs can avail the services by confirming to the programming model of the run-time environment (or container).”

“Software platforms for enterprise applications can often support multiple hardware platforms. The portability of the run-time environment (or container) also allows for portability of enterprise application to multiple hardware environments with minimal or no changes…”

“With increases focus on business competitiveness, one of the strategies that organizations employ for IT platforms is to buy what they can and build what they must. Two types of platforms accordingly support enterprise applications:
Packaged application platform.
Enterprise application platform.”

Shankar Kambhampaty in Service-Oriented Architecture For Enterprise Applications
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