On 4/21/11 8:07 PM, Rich Cooper wrote:
> Ron, agreed, legacy databases, software and business methods will not be
> replaced wholesale by ontologies. Its very frustrating to realize that
> ontologists are simply not going to accept that reality. (01)
They will be transformed via middleware. It's why middleware exists as
a viable product and services space :-) (02)
Kingsley
> -Rich
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> Sincerely,
> Rich Cooper
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> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Relating and Reconciling Ontologies[Legacy
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> On 21/04/2011 4:05 PM, David Eddy wrote:
>> John -
>>
>> On 2011-04-21, at 9:50 AM, John F. Sowa wrote:
>>
>>> At that level of detail, we agree. But the framework must support
>>> existing systems, future systems, and people at all levels of
>>> education. (And even experts in one field are novices in others.)
>>>
>>> 1. There are trillions of dollars of legacy software that run the
>>> world economy. It won't be replaced for a long, long time.
>>>
>>> 2. Anything that replaces a legacy system has to interoperate with
>>> it during a long period of transition. In fact, most systems
>>> that replace a legacy system build on and extend the implicit
>>> ontology in the old system.
>>>
>>> 3. Anything that depends on people using unique identifiers must
>>> address the problem that even experts in a subject can't agree
>>> on what codes or categories to assign.
>>
>> I thought the mundane issue of "legacy systems" was taken off the
>> ontology table as irrelevant?
>>
> It will be easier to take ontology off the table as irrelevant.
> If your new system does not integrate with the corporate ERP it will die
> from irrelevance and lack of data.
>
>> Did I miss something?
>>
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