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uni-siegen.de Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) evolved as an important architectural concept in software engineering. Although the services of an SOA are loosely coupled and reusable, there have been few considerations of SOA in terms of End User Development (EUD). In this paper we will analyze the potential of SOA for the development of adaptable systems and propose challenges, which have to be solved to reach this goal. Our analysis is based on empirical studies and on requirements for EUD systems, taken from earlier research. If SOAs are extended with structures for in-use-modifications (even beyond software technologies), it will be possible to design a new generation of user-adaptable systems