Hi All -- Congratulations to Charles for starting this new group. It's good to see people trying to get a comprehensive view of the IT elephant (:-) The...
Hi all, Banging around on the ITSM portal ( <http://en.itsmportal.net/> http://en.itsmportal.net/) I came across this 800-page volume The Guide to IT Service...
The book is available in the US through Software Management Network http://www.softwaremanagement.com <http://www.softwaremanagement.com> . Martin Erb ...
Erb, Martin
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Nov 3, 2003 4:58 pm
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(from www.erp4it.com) Repository proliferation: time for a freeze As part of my job, I have been reviewing quite a few products for the internal IT market....
MessageCharles and all, Twenty years ago when 'Business ERP' started to happen with MRP, few people believed that integrating disparate departmental systems...
There are several points here, each of which could be a separate thread: 1. Service Management tools tend to use data models that overlap with ...
Robert S. Falkowitz
robert@...
Nov 4, 2003 10:53 pm
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Great posts, all. This is exactly the kind of discusson I wanted. I'll respond when the baby stops crying. Just a note - only your FIRST post is moderated....
MessageJust to add my two cents worth to the other comments that have already been made, the challenge of gaining software vendor support for XMI and MOF won't...
Below in red. ... From: Robert S. Falkowitz [mailto:robert@...] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:13 PM To: erp4it@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [erp4it]...
John - ... Sorry to be blunt, but that's simply NEVER going to work. There are simply too many datasinks (VSAM, DB2, IMS, Supra, VMS, dBaseIII, Oracle, etc.,...
All - Just to toss a hopefully provocative thought on the table... Relational database engines (DB2, Oracle, etc.) are excellent for DATA. But meta data...
Hi David, The "mother of all databases" theory is justly and long since discredited. Even ERP vendors have pulled back from this; they partition their...
So, what is a repository anyways? ... The American Heritage dictionary says: - A place where things may be put for safekeeping. - A warehouse. - A museum. - A...
David Thanks for your note. I agree that a lot of business ERP has not been a great success - just like a lot of IT investment - people in businesses need to...
How many of us will be at OMG London? If a quorum, then it would be great to meet up sometime - maybe in an evening. If I could suggest one agenda item, it's...
In the COMBINE project (an EU 5th Framework project that finished last year), we constructed a business model of an IT organization (actually an ODP Enterprise...
Further to my last: The relevant SEI page is http://www.sei.cmu.edu/plp/plp_init.html. Also, I would have included SOA in my list - except that service ...
I have heard from a reliable source that the current thinking in the Data Center Markup Language effort (www.dcml.org) is not to use XML schemas, but rather...
Let's split off this question into a separate thread. I get the impression from your remarks that the "enterprise masters" are not so "well-established"...
Robert S. Falkowitz
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Nov 6, 2003 5:45 pm
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... Actually I agree with your objection... Not sure how precisely to say it positively, but my intent is to state that while RDBMS engines are excellent for...
Well, well-established within the context of a given shop. That's the important point. Yes, there are few standards vendors can drive to (LDAP being something...
David, Would you expand on your reasoning a little? I can see how an object model might be more appropriate for data modelling, whilst a relational model more...
Robert S. Falkowitz
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Nov 6, 2003 10:33 pm
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"datamangler2003" <dbe@...> wrote on 06.11.2003 22:12:03: [...] ... While I completely agree with your statement technically, I believe it'd be very...
Stefan Tilkov
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Nov 6, 2003 10:34 pm
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... I'm not that knowledgeable in RDF, but as far as I can tell, you can map pretty much everything in MOF to either 'pure' XML or RDF without major problems....
Stefan Tilkov
stefan.tilkov@...
Nov 6, 2003 10:35 pm
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I'd like to offer some additional thoughts on RDF/Semantic Web vs. MOF. Basically the Semantic Web and MOF address two different concerns. Both concerns have...
Thanks David. For those who haven't encountered him previously, David is the author of Model Driven Architecture: Applying MDA to Enterprise Computing: ...
MessageCharlie-- First of all, thanks for the kind words. My remarks were purely about the Semantic Web vs. MOF, and not scoped to DCML which, to tell you the...
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