The software integration wrong is wrong BEFORE the web, the idea of an OS like a container ship and applications as container on the ship, able to "interact eac

The software integration wrong is wrong BEFORE the web, the idea of an OS like a container ship and applications as container on the ship, able to "interact each others only with cut&paste, DnD humanly, or programmatically with some "desktop bus" is a commercial move that fail the entire subsequent IT development. The original model was an OS-framework where an application was just a bit of code added to the common live codebase. The web 2.0 try to reimplement such model without admitting the commercial horror we are in. Hence it can only fails despite all the progresses. Web n.x can't solve the underlying issue. The solution we have is simply accept that software as a product and as a service can't exists in a proper IT sound world. Data can be sold, iron can be sold, not more. Data can be XML, EDI, json, yaml, ... as long as we have the base we can have easy enough integration because agreeing with a real world standard is not something doable up front while having the flexible base, the ease user-level/high-level development of classic systems do solve much integration issue. Try Emacs and you'll understand.