In reading a recent blog by Phil Wainewright highlighting the shift from enterprise applications to a service marketplace, I'm thinking that the writing is on the wall as to the inevitable shift. Clearly, we are building service marketplaces now, and eventually these electronic marketplaces will provide most of our enterprise application functionality, delivered as remote Web services directly into enterprise an In reading a recent blog by Phil Wainewright highlighting the shift from enterprise applications to a service marketplace, I’m thinking that the writing is on the wall as to the inevitable shift. Clearly, we are building service marketplaces now, and eventually these electronic marketplaces will provide most of our enterprise application functionality, delivered as remote Web services directly into enterprise and composite applications. Thus, we’ll become more integrators than developers, mixing and matching remote application components to create enterprise applications custom fit for our needs, and no longer buying them from the usual suspects as multi million dollar and multi year projects. Software Development