As we’ve seen in previous chapters, there are many different types of services, each type with its own specific role within the enterprise-as-a-service. But perhaps the most crucial point is that no service exists in isolation: it is always part of a larger system, hence systems within systems within systems, all the way up to “the everything.”
To emphasize the living-enterprise metaphor again, perhaps that ought to be an ecosystem rather than a “system.” The latter term tends to push us back ...
