Impact of SOA on Data Warehousing

Was reading a white-paper from OAGIS on the concept of business integration software ; this led me to think about the possible impacts on data warehousing in terms of integration , federation and what Lou Agosta referred to as the Virtual Data Warehouse ( i believe this was in a article on dmreview.com)
Dan Linstedt has a very clear thoughts on this and in his article featured in Terdata Magazine he makes certain crucial observations "

• Can your organization agree on the services that you need-for customers, for partners, for your internal organizations?
• Can you agree on what parts of those services require access to data that is or should be stored in your enterprise data warehouse?
• As for active data warehouses, can you agree on what key business events should cause the enterprise data warehouse to kick off an automated business workflow? "

He contends that SOA will make it easier and faster to develop decision support applications.
I concur with his thoughts but at the same time one must look at the fact SOA is a concept and at the core of which lies the fact of standard definitions , processes , systems. I believe that these kind of enterprise-wide integration efforts will only be successful when sufficient time , effort , money , active senior management support is available to get a solid foundation of common definitions and DW architects will have to be fight a lonely battle for quite sometime and be the change-drivers in organizations.

French law could affect the music-download industry

"France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer Inc to open its iTunes online music store and enable consumers to download songs onto devices other than the computer maker's popular iPod player."

This is great news for people who find the iPod a tad expensive...