Thousands of programmers work independently and at the end everything is magically integrated together to produce systems that enterprises can use.
Unfortunately real in-depth integration has to take place at the design stage.
The real step forward will be rule based design methods and declarative programming languages based directly on logic that allow businesses to build systems that fit their business in reasonable time scales, at sensible cost and with high reliability. This is something that really has the potential to replace the straightjacket of off-the-shelf software.
The integrating thousands of independently written services after the event, though a romantic notion, is in fact a red herring the size of a white elephant.
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