I think a big aspect of this is the question of how to use ontology in
day-to day applications.
It seems to me that it would mainly play a back-seat role as knowledge base,
which should be shared, rather than on one's individual computer system.
It could be used to model business processes and communication and generate
the corresponding schemas, code etc. but that is a very specialized
application, not the OS.
Machine translation, of course, but that is also better decentralized unless
it is on a mobile device.
The right implementation of a knowledge store will at some time replace the
operating system, files, directories etc. and change our idea of what a
personal computer is. I'm not sure where we are on that but I predict that
is going to be the next breakthrough with this technology. (01)
My "Microsoft program" that never was released:
In 2006 at the PHIN conference in Atlanta Dr. Craig Feied (then Azyxxi) gave
a presentation of software developed and deployed for the emergency
department of one of MedStar Health's hospitals, the Washington Hospital
Center, in Washington, D.C. The presentation was placed almost like it was
an afterthought to the whole conference, yet it was visionary, IMHO. The
presentation was also given with the disclaimer that Microsoft had just
bought Azyxxi and the whole system. From my understanding, this was/is a
system based on a post-relational engine, what we today call NOSQL,
incredibly fast, with a level of medical knowledge intertwined with the
emergency room's day-to-day operations that was off the chart, compared to
other systems then available, particular the ailing system the conference
was about.
I had great hopes that Microsoft comes up with a new app/datastore based on
that, but it looks like they just market the product as Amalga these days.
I'm not sure if some of Azyxxi's ideas have made it into the MS Entity
Framework and/or are used in Bing, but they certainly had the deck stacked
in their favor at that time. (02)
Tom (03)
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Mainstream IT will *never* adopt ontology-based systems until the
supporting tools are integrated with the tools they currently use. (05)
Microsoft captured and maintained their monopoly by providing a
simpler migration path than their competitors. But with Windows 8,
they made the blunder of forcing users to adopt a new interface. (06)
They hoped that the new interface would be better for tablet
computers, but they lost their base: (07)
From
http://www.crn.com/news/mobility/240153294/its-no-magic-touch-vars-say-train
ing-requirements-are-killing-windows-8-sales.htm
> "Our customers are saying they're nervous about Windows 8 because of the
> training requirement that's going to go with it, to make that leap from
> that typical interface that they're used to with the Start button," said
> Phil Fortmeyer, partner at Clear North Technologies, a Plymouth,
Minn.-based
> solution provider. "We've certainly seen a slump in PC sales. And I'd say
> it's been a small percentage going with Windows 8. The majority still want
> to do Windows 7." (08)
IBM learned the importance of having a smooth upgrade. When they moved
from the IBM 7094 and 1401, they lost a lot of customers. They managed
to hold their monopoly only by providing emulators for the old hardware. (09)
Most customers *never* migrated their legacy systems to the IBM/360.
Instead, they continued to run them for years on the emulators, while
designing all 360-based software to interoperate with the emulators. (010)
The lack of interoperability with legacy software is the primary reason
why mainstream IT does not adopt tools for ontology or the Semantic Web. (011)
No amount of preaching or cajoling will get anybody to switch to a new
system unless the migration path is as smooth and painless as possible. (012)
John (013)
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