- From: <ewallace@cme.nist.gov>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:22:45 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Uche Ogbuji wrote: >"intranet environment" is not "the real, muddy world", which is where I >said machine merging magic is impractical (because there is no centrally >controlled grounding of symbols). I cannot let this one go by without comment. An "intranet environment" is both real and muddy. Many integration problems within such environments could be tackled with SW technologies, just as many IT solutions in such environments today are web-based. I realize that some key players in the SW have such a well-formed vision of its ultimate deployment that they consider "smaller", near-term applications to be distracting and even counter productive to pursue. However, I believe that such applications will be critical in proving and perfecting the current layers. Success stories in this area will be key in enabling SW technology to pass through that part of the Gartner Hype Cycle [1], the Trough of Disillusionment, that will inevitably be encountered on the way to that ultimate SW vision. So I applaud the pursuit of a SW which will scale to the full web and not depend on centralized control, but please stop discounting enterprise wide networks as being invalid test and deployment environment for SW technologies and tools in the near-term. -Evan Evan K. Wallace Manufacturing Systems Integration Division NIST [1] http://www4.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.8795.s.8.jsp
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