Dear Paul, (01)
>
> I have only a dim understanding of finance, (02)
MW: Clearly. (03)
> but I do recall a finance
> professor emphasizing the point that sunk costs are immaterial to
> future
> spending decisions. So past investments in software are of no concern.
> A
> rational CFO will only ask how much return he will get from the next
> dollar he spends. The question comes down to putting your enterprise
> intellectual property into proprietary OIDs (application-specific
> object
> identifiers) and all the machinery it takes to make those OIDs useful,
> or putting it into URIs (and RDF triples) and get much of the caring
> and
> feeding of them for free so you can invest more of your intellectual
> resources into getting the most out of your cool URIs. (04)
MW: URI's are great for data that you want to share, for example, your product
catalogue. However, the majority of an organization's data is what gives it
it's competitive edge. Not surprisingly this you do not want to share. This
will already be tied up in system identifiers for free. There will be no
incentive to make this data "free" for all to use, at least not until there is
no longer hardware available capable of running the software the systems work
on, which seems to be the ultimate route to obsolescence. (05)
Regards (06)
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