%0 Journal Article %T On the Role of Service Concept in IT %A DESPI Ioan %A LUCA Lucian %J Annals. Computer Science Series %D 2009 %I Mirton Publishing House, Timisoara %X Hard times affecting world-wide economy have strong consequences and are challenging IT departments from all sorts of enterprises. Expensive software projects are replaced by component-based agile systems and paradigms like SOA, REST, cloud computing are the new buzz-words. Behind the canvas, the service concept plays a central role, which we try to reveal. %U http://anale-informatica.tibiscus.ro/download/lucrari/7-2-03-Despi.pdf