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Re: [ontolog-forum] Architectural considerations in Ontology Development

To: "'deddy'" <deddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'[ontolog-forum] '" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Hans Polzer" <hpolzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:23:53 -0500
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This reminds me of the fact that during the Cold War the Swedish military 
deliberately made their systems non-interoperable with those of other countries 
(like NATO nations) because they didn't want any invading troops to be able to 
use any equipment they might capture.     (01)

Having said that, the socio-political business model dynamic is not static and 
Sweden now wants to be able to interoperate with other nations because they now 
see the benefits of interoperation outweighing the perceived risks/costs. The 
advent of the Internet and global supply chains and inter/intra-industry 
service providers now are leading many companies towards greater 
interoperability and abandonment of proprietary standards (or attempting to 
make the latter more open, de facto, industry standards). That doesn't mean 
some won't still see economic or political advantage by frustrating 
interoperability (the Internet itself exhibits some of this behavior at some 
national and most corporate domain boundaries). It's best to look at this issue 
overall as an evolving ecosystem operating in an evolving environment, both of 
which are affected by technological progress and social and business model 
innovations/experiments. Darwin rules. In many cases interoperability spells 
survival and in other cases it leads to self  (or mutual) destruction. 
Standards get proposed and gain acceptance/persistence or fall into disuse 
accordingly.    (02)

Hans    (03)

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Development    (04)

Aït-Kaci -    (05)

>
> only reason the width of a Roman horse's ass over 2000 years ago!
>    (06)

Likely largely true.    (07)

But... this being America (which I assume is likely the same sort of chaos 
elsewhere)...    (08)

Around the Civil War there were approximately 21 rail gauges east of the 
Mississippi.    (09)

Clearly the issue of there being a plethora of "standards" is not a new 
challenge.    (010)


The corporate game of intentional lack of interoperability is not new.    (011)

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David Eddy
Babson Park, MA    (012)

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