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  1. Pat, tell us a little about your background.
  2. Having been involved with distributed computing architectures for a while, can you give us a perspective of how things have evolved over the years?
  3. You mentioned us moving beyond distributed objects for connecting enterprises together. In what direction do you see us moving?
  4. Is there still a place for distributed objects or are services now the way to do distribution?
  5. Are you saying that the need to separate logical tiers across physical boundaries is simply not going to happen any more and that's one reason why the value proposition for distributed objects is going away?
  6. These forces that exist when integrating separate enterprises have always been there. What has changed now that we're focusing on services more than tightly coupled systems?
  7. What are some of the challenges of integrating applications that have not existed before?
  8. So how is this going to shake out? How will we establish this common understanding between applications?
  9. Haven't we already seen this with EDI? What lessons have we learned from that experience?
  10. So how does this all relate to enterprise integration?
  11. Why is 'Hooking Shit Together' a more appropriate term?
  12. How does HST apply within a typical organization?
  13. What are some best practices we can apply to achieve this level of integration?
  14. You mentioned screen scraping and html parsing. Shouldn't people stick to one model, the service orientation model for integration?
  15. How will people use services in building their applications?
  16. You've used civil engineering metaphors many times to describe enterprise architectural issues; can you tell us more about this metropolis paradigm?