Re: Semantic Suggestions please ... for oilit journal

Carmen,
This is true (the amount of work it seems to necessitate), although you
managed to mention three technologies in one sentence I have never heard of.
I don't agree with your assessment of Universities or companies associated
with Universities. People are not fools. They must have their own motives
and get what they pay for. A solution like this opens a lot of possibilities
that Rails as is does not. Large and complex domains with data sources that
can change in unpredictable ways warrant complex solutions. I am not sure
that oil-IT is such a domain, but I had thought this was more of a curious
challenge rather than a strict business requirement.
As to consulting companies, don't speak to me about them, I work for one!

Best,
Adam


2008/10/3 carmen r <_@whats-your.name>

>
> > thats why I recommended to let this be done by people who have
> > experience and can calculate the costs.
> > consulting companies. Hackers always underestimate the effort
>
> consulting companies (or large universities/institutions) are likely to
> propose a solution which is more complicated effortwise to begin with
>
> primarily as a way to justify their considerable expense and achieve 'lock
> in' to their expertise, for future updates/maintenance
>
>
> hackers would convert his oil-IT journal's semistructure data to
> Django/Rails/ARC fields in an afternoon, set up some Sphinx searching, and
> move onto their next gig without even uttering "Lucene"
>
>