- From: Francois Bry <bry@ifi.lmu.de>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:30:51 +0100
- Cc: public-rif-wg@w3.org
Vincent, Paul D wrote: >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. > > To the best of my understanding, commercial offers related to "rules" are extremely fragmented. Eg database views and integrity constraints are rerely fully integrated/integrable in rule systems. Furthermore, there are emerging applications, especially": - RDF-related rules. - OWL-related rules. - Rules for negociations. My understanding is that RIF should support such emerging applications as well as established applications database views and integrity constraints. -- Francois
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