On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:36:02 -0500, Paul Winkler wrote: > > and wether you are willing to change. > > I do web development with Zope. My site code never depends on > the data store :-) I'm not sure if thats a joke or not ;) Zope is based on an OODB IIRC. thier not very good at schema independence in my experience. > > As an example, look at my entry on works KB: > > http://triplestore.aktors.org/browse/?resource=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecs.soton.ac.uk%2Finfo%2F%23person-00384 > > I hardly wrote any of that, most of it came from other sources, eg. > > someones online photo album and random databases published as RDF, click > > "show sources" (top right) to see where it all came from. > > That is pretty interesting. > I hadn't considered that *I* might be the 3rd party :-) :) Its the network effect, just like the "syntaxic" web, if you're the only guy with a website theres not much pont, but when all your friends and collegues have one its suddenly interesting. - Steve
