Alex Bosworth: “Why hasn’t the world moved to a service oriented architecture? Doing your own internal groupware is a pain, CRM is a whole production, email, etc, wouldn’t these all be better done by web services whose expertise is these things? Well there are a few reasons, services can’t seem to find the price point, innovative startups are still working on finding the right offerings, etc. One of the biggest reasons I believe in is actually one of the complaints that helped launch SourceLabs: Vendor Lock-in.”