I happen to be working in it at the moment and can heartily agree. Just Friday I got a call from a user. "Hey, Mike, I'm having a weird problem with a 1500." (I soon learned it's about the most basic form in the field, for filing a claim).

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture
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>If you think we have lots of acronyms, try the medical field. Computing doesn't even come close.
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>>I am clearly in the far too many group because I don't even know what SOA stands for. Lord, we have more acronyms than the military.