That was the high level summary of insights from CIOs and CTOs collected by the Object Management Group's (OMG) SOA Consortium. The consortium, founded by BEA Systems Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., IBM and SAP AG to focus on SOA as a business strategy, revealed the top five insights gleaned from it recent executive summit for CIOs and CTOs.

While not all of the executive insights are unheard of in SOA architect and developer circles, the views from the executive suite portend a top-down revolution in thinking about business computing and software. The CIOs and CTOs, invited to the consortium summit and promised anonymity for their views, don't expect to buy software in the same way, if they expect to buy it at all. They now get that service-orientation changes how IT will work with the business side of the enterprise and are ready to re-organize departments to get SOA beyond the pilot stage.