I'll plant a midpost flag and say, while it shouldn't be revered as a bible of eternal truths, it did document and progress the discussion on many things. I th

I'll plant a midpost flag and say, while it shouldn't be revered as a bible of eternal truths, it did document and progress the discussion on many things. I think Fowler does a good job of identifying and classifying things, but that hasn't necessarily made IT / Enterprise all that simpler. What has made "progress" in IT has fundamentally been programmers treating more and more things like code and automating the hell out of everything.