Re: Managing Co-reference (Was: A Semantic Elephant?)

Excerpts from Kingsley Idehen's message of Wed May 14 14:59:29 -0400 2008:
> Owlgres is a PostgreSQL application. Why the DBMS specificity?

Because it makes for a better name, obviously... ;>

Seriously, it's not Postgres specific. We prefer Postgresql, but Owlgres can
run on any JDBC-compliant database. I suspect that, as it matures and we find a
customer base for it, it will run on a variety of databases.

> What does PosgreSQL offer that you may have assumed is/was missing from 
> Virtuoso when developing this application?

I don't know why you're assuming that I assumed anything, but the primary
reasons we chose Postgresql were maturity, scalability, extensibility, vibrant
after-market, BSD license, and PostGIS.

> I've also added, Orri Erling (Program Manager Virtuoso), Ivan Mikhailov 
> (Lead Developer of Virtuoso's Quad Store functionality realm), and Alan 
> Rutternberg to this thread (Alan is interested in Owlgres and Virtuoso 
> integration).

If you'd like to have a conversation with Alan or others about Owlgres working
w/ Virtuoso, we can do that offline or at SemTech next week, but I don't think
it's very relevant here.

Cheers,
Kendall