On 22/04/2011 1:50 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> 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.
> They will be transformed via middleware. It's why middleware exists as
> a viable product and services space :-)
>
+1 That is where we should be focused.
> Kingsley
>> -Rich
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Rich Cooper
>> EnglishLogicKernel.com
>> Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ron Wheeler
>> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 4:59 PM
>> To: ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Relating and Reconciling Ontologies[Legacy
>> Systems]
>>
>> 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.
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