Reuse, as pretty much everyone knows, is something of a holy grail when it comes to service-oriented architectures. “I think reuse should be a goal, and clearly we’ve had that on our radar in IT for some time. However … the core benefit is the value of reusing, not that fact that you reuse. There is a difference,” David Linthicum writes in Reusing the topic of reuse. That said, Linthicum contends that we won’t get to “mass reuse” anytime soon. “SOA can still have value without a significant amount of reuse.” Technology Industry