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these days, the word 'agility' is popping up. The first time I heard this term 
was about two years ago when my business partner, Philippe Herve, mentioned it. 
He used the term in the context of information architecture - specifically with 
regard to a topic portal server project that we were doing for 
Schlumberger&amp;nbsp;- many thanks to Jean Vacance for giving us that opportunity 
to learn. Philippe believed that [because of emerging standards] we were nearing 
a point where software could be designed to outlive its initial intended 
purpose. Now it seems that hardware companies and software vendors are all 
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application services that are genuinely darwinistic with portal systems may 
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