RE: [RIF] [UCR]: What is the RIF (revisited) --> changing vendor rule languages

Most vendor rule languages are still in active development. However, it is quite rare to get a rule language change request from a customer. Certainly I have never seen any requests to move for example Blaze Advisor SRL in the direction of some of the concepts described in the RIF threads.

Of course, a customer needing a particular language feature would select a rule engine having that feature. The fact that 70-80% of the commercial rule engine market is provided by 2 vendors indicates some level of maturity about their rule languages.

Paul Vincent
Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor --- Business Rule Management
OMG Standards for Business Rules, PRR & BPMI
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From: public-rif-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-rif-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Francois Bry
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Subject: Re: [RIF] [UCR]: What is the RIF (revisited)


Dave Reynolds wrote:

> If we look at the business rules market then we have a number of 
> mature and successful products. One goal for RIF in that market is to 
> enable users to move rules between systems, in which case RIF is for 
> interchange between well-established systems. No vendor will change 
> their language to move towards some invented RIF language. 

What about customers? They often make vendors move...
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Francois

Received on Thursday, 9 February 2006 15:42:53 UTC