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With service-oriented architectures and the organization-centric development of application systems, we are experiencing the beginning of a reorientation in how information technology is used in the global economy as well as in our private lives. This trend has already impacted on the "System and Application Development" branch of study at colleges and universities. Language-critical Organization Theory has thus become a discipline in research and teaching. In the years to come, this shift of emphasis will broaden present endeavors and originate new interdisciplinary ones in research and development. Because of the global nature of these endeavors, it is important to look for a common basis for possible cooperation partners in this field. The necessary efforts are enormous and can only be managed successfully by working together. Looking at how the philosophy of science has developed throughout the twentieth century seems to imply that a) the primarily American analytic philosophy of science paired with b) the methodical constructivism of predominantly German origin (Erlangen and Constance) could form this common basis. In this paper, both philosophies will form the foundation substantiating practical development in the field of service-oriented architecture. The common foundation will also disclose what people must be able to do or, respectively, what they must know (understand) if they want to work successfully in the IT-industry in the future.

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8739-4_24

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