It's about People, Business and Software

Office 2007 and Vista are on the horizon and MS is starting to polish on the vision for the products. With People-Ready Business the new products will get packaged and deployed to the market, but what is the meaning of the announcement?

People is an important pillar in an enterprise where (let's say) Business and Software are the other two. Combining the three pillars with readiness (as the measurement for how they are related to the vision) will create 6 different messages. Below are the permutations of People, Business and Software in terms of readiness:

1. People Ready Business
2. Business Ready People
3. Software Ready People
4. People Ready Software
5. Software Ready Business
6. Business Ready Software

After a couple of minutes thinking about them, one thing pops up in my head. What if we got an enterprise with people who are ready for the business. People that are competent to use the software that is created for supporting the business. Software easy to use by the people. A business that can be improved with the right software in use and effectively runned by the right people.

It's a long shot, but isn't that the SOA marketing message we are talking about here?