Can someone explain an Enterprise Service Bus to me in non-buzzspeak?

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Published on 2010-06-16T17:31:57Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 17:42 UTC
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Some of our partners are telling us that our software needs to interact with an Enterprise Service Bus. After researching this a bit, my instinct is to say that this is just buzz speak for saying that we need to have a platform-indpendent way to pass messages back and forth. I'm just trying to get a feel for what our partners are telling us. Am I correct in dismissing our partners' request as just trying to get our software to be more buzzword-compliant, or are they telling us something we should listen to (even if encoded in buzzspeak)?

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