Top Ten "You know you are an Integrator when..."

1 you recognize people by their operating system, hardware model and major application portfolio.

2 friendships are governed by a Service Level Agreements and/or Service Contracts following the WSDL standard.

3 you consider yourself bilingual because you speak English and XML.

4 asked what you do for a living, you invariably default to “making computers talk to each other” or avoid the question altogether.

5 you know that loose coupling is not synonymous with wife swapping.

6 no matter who you talk to, you see them as either producers or consumers.

7 you understand their are differences between City Transit and the Enterprise Service Bus.

8 when you take a phone message it is by default real-time, guaranteed and fault tolerant.

9 you struggle for hours to understand the semantic meaning of those ‘extra’ charges on your cellular phone bill.

10 metadata is not a dirty word.