- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:59:46 +0100
- To: "Johnson, Matthew C. (LNG-ALB)" <Matthew.C.Johnson@lexisnexis.com>
- Cc: "Richard Newman" <rnewman@twinql.com>, semantic-web@w3.org
fyi, right now Talis Platform accounts are free on the community ('n-squared'), and though longer term it's likely that some charging scheme will come in for commercial apps, use for community and/or research kind of projects will be free indefinitely. There are plans to gradually open-source the software used in the Platform (much of it is derived from os anyway), though it's low priority. The product is the services & associated infrastructure, not the software. What's exposed is very much inclined towards openness anyhow, being heavily standards-based (HTTP, RDF, SPARQL etc). Flipping over to a different storage system which uses the same standards should be straightforward. Even if you are likely to use your own store later, I'd personally recommend having a play with the Platform stores - I've found them handy in my own stuff for rapid prototyping (and haven't yet seen any need to opt for a different backend, though admittedly prototype tends to be as far as I ever get with my own stuff...). While Talis is developing apps internally on the Platform (e.g. Engage [1]), it's very advantageous for us to draw on outside expertise to help determine future requirements & design - hence the community programme. Anyhow, if you want an account, no strings attached, let me know. Cheers, Danny. [1] http://www.talis.com/engage/ -- http://dannyayers.com ~ http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/this_weeks_semantic_web/
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