From Open Database Connectivity to Open Data Connectivity

All,

I've written a detailed post [1] about the timelessly important issue of 
Open Data Access as it relates to Linked Data. I've responded to 
snippets from a video [2] produced by one of our data access middleware 
competitors turned co-opetitor [3].

Linked Data is best sold to the enterprise as an improvement over ODBC. 
Basically, an improvement that takes them from Open Database 
Connectivity to Open Data Connectivity, courtesy of Web ubiquity.

To the enterprise customer, an HTTP URI is a powerful Data Source Name 
(DSN) mechanism. Its also a Super Key delivery mechanism since all keys 
actually resolve to records that are intensional (description oriented 
propositions in 3-tuple form).

What I outline above is a "deceptively simple" value proposition that 
any enterprise customer will comprehend, naturally.

Links:

1. http://goo.gl/1dO33 -- Is Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) Dead?
2. http://youtu.be/kxjxlo5yTVk -- Video in full .
3. http://dbpedia.org/page/Coopetition -- Coopetition explained .

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Regards,

Kingsley Idehen	
Founder&  CEO
OpenLink Software
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