Chapter 15: Getting Started


Overview

So what should you do on Monday morning?

I suppose that after the last two chapters, the natural thing to do would be to start handicapping which technology is going to win: Web Services or the Semantic Web. Don't worry about that. Who wins (unless you happen to be a vendor serving one of those two ecologies) will not matter nearly as much as how much the industry shifts toward a semantic focus on systems development and interoperation. To the extent that this shift happens, your ability to take advantage of changes will be directly proportional to the effort you've put into your semantic makeover, rather than which technology you selected.

In the early days of relational databases or object-oriented programming, it mattered less which technology you picked (although in each case there were significant "religious wars" over the technologies). The important thing was that you moved in that direction and learned what you needed to learn, individually and corporately, to apply these paradigms to your systems.

Chapter 15 is intentionally brief. It is meant to help you put together your own action plan in terms of what you do with this information.




Semantics in Business Systems(c) The Savvy Manager's Guide
Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Managers Guide (The Savvy Managers Guides)
ISBN: 1558609172
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 184
Authors: Dave McComb

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