Corrected Betfair IT head count

I've verified the figures and the current count stands at 277. There are
plans to have up to 500 by the end of the year. My apologies for a wrong
estimate of 900 circulated earlier.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bijan Parsia [mailto:bparsia@isr.umd.edu]
> Sent: 06 June 2006 16:51
> To: Stan Devitt
> Cc: Alex Kozlenkov; Gerd Wagner; public-rif-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: "industry needs"
> 
> On Jun 6, 2006, at 4:29 PM, Stan Devitt wrote:
> 
> > The point here was not to debate the details and perceptions of of
> > MathML
> 
> I wasn't really trying to debate it, I was merely trying to learn
> from that experience. I agree there are analogies between RIF and
> MathML, but I also am trying to nail down what "widespread adoption"
> really means, esp. as a *general* CSF. But it's hard to get very far
> from your elliptical remarks, hence the request for further points. I
> merely included the other pointers as evidence that I did try to find
> this out myself (however quickly).
> 
> > though I think it and the process that was followed does provide
good
> > counter examples to some of the ideas I have been hearing.
> [snip]
> 
> Not if they aren't accessible. Or rather, it's harder for them to do
> so. Of course, this being the W3C, the discussions, at least, are
> open. But the adoption probably comes from other sources.
> 
> I tend to think that "widespread adoption" is a bit of a empty
> whatever it is (requirement?). (In fact, I had an email from someone
> off list where they said they understood "widespread adoption" to
> mean "widespread adoption in the 'mainstream' rules community" where
> the "'mainstream' rules community" was dominated by PR rules. So, "PR
> rules are essential to widespread adoption" becomes, well, a
> tautology.) I tend to think it's more important to know if *members*
> are going to adoption/support it. So Alex's report is much more
> interesting and informative (my skepticism wrt to the 900 IT
> engineers notwithstanding) than these other ones.
> 
> Forgive my skepticism, but when people appeal to certain facts, I
> prefer some back up for those facts, particularly about things that
> are in principle verifiable.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bijan.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Received on Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:10:34 UTC