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Bill,
I'm genuinely puzzled by your
comment:
> On Mar 4, 2006, at 09:26 , Cassidy, Patrick J.
wrote:
> Mathew,
> Since the large ontology-based
applications that will be useful for
> major problems are likely to use
relational databases (or their
> equivalent) as their back-end, what is
the problem with saying that
> the capabilities of such systems are
more advanced than the
> capabilities of database systems
alone?
[BA] Because it's hype that has not been substantiated by
experience.
Hype is bad. If we're not careful we're going
over-hype all of this
and create ourselves another "AI
winter".
Isn't that what Ontology Works's system does - add to the
capabilities of database systems alone? How do you characterize the
advantage that your programs have over traditional databases? What does
your advertising say?
Or to put it another way - is this "hype"??
(emphasis added)
OWI database products – The Knowledge Server™ (KS™ ) and
the High-Performance Knowledge Server™ (HPKS™ ) – represent the most advanced and mature products of their kind. The
KS™ is the first product to execute ontologies in a transactional database
environment; the HPKS™ scales that technology to manage terabytes of
information. The HPKS™ leverages Objectivity/DB™ – an advanced database that
eliminates costly JOIN tables – to deliver for the first time scalable
information storage and query performance to a high-fidelity information model
environment. The HPKS™ solves the most demanding analytic information management
problems by design, supporting applications that until
now were impossible to realize with traditional relational database
systems. These servers provide the essential capabilities to make
possible complex applications, among these capabilities is fact-level security
and support for “what if” analysis.
Guess where that came from. (I
think those statements may be correct)
Pat
Patrick
Cassidy
MITRE Corporation
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