Services are delivered into service inventories and are aggregated into service compositions.

Services are delivered as service compositions that are aggregated into a set of service inventories.

Services are delivered into service compositions that are composed by service inventories.

Services are delivered as service inventories that are composed by other service inventories.

"An application is considered service-oriented if it uses Web services."

"It is required that you stick with a single SOA vendor platform in order to successfully achieve the strategic goals of service-oriented computing."

"SOA projects always require enterprise-wide standardization and enterprise-wide global data models."

"The successful adoption of SOA will help an organization become more agile and responsive."

A natural increase in runtime performance that you will gain as a result of the fact that service compositions will often be comprised of a greater amount of individually participating programs (services) than traditional distributed applications.

The fact that the existing IT organizational structure will not have to change because of how well a service-oriented enterprise fits into traditional IT departmental structures that are focused on project-centric application delivery.

The tactical (short-term) focus of service-orientation, which allows for the initial rapid delivery of services without concerns about their subsequent governance.

The strategic (long-term) target state that is attainable when many of the services delivered are interoperable and reusable, thereby allowing for them to be repeatedly composed in response to new and changing business requirements.