Hi Mr Mills,

I have read your comment and I agree with you entirely. The whole SOA e.t.c. is way to undoable without semantics. Nevertheless, it enable people in entrenched structures to preserve archaic ways of doing things rather than move to another level.

We have been using our knowledge based system for over 5 years. There is no programming (of the classical type) involved just expression of knowledge by domain specific experts directly. The benefits we have derived from knowledge technology are enourmous. Implementation times of complex structures are between 10 to 20 times faster with 10% of human resources. One does not need to manage computer science technical bits, i.e. translation from knowledge to procedural technical language.

After having used this technology for 5 years we feel that it is much more natural and somehow, the relational data bases with their tools are archaic and unnatural. The simple anwser to why current way of doing things had to be precursor to knowledge technology is: CPU power. Semantics/Knowledge processing is much more CPU intensive. Modern multicore processor now have helped to make this possible to such an extent that knowledge technology can actually outperform traditional structures.

We should get computers up to knowledge standard so that we can communicate with them on that level rather than on a level of ameba. This does not even touch on issues of artificial intelligence e.g. machine learning etc.

If a better way to talk to computers is Web 3.0 - great, we should all strive towards this.

Incidentally, we are also jumping on the Web 3.0 bandwagon. Soon we going to go live with our deep semantic knowledge representation webos etc structure (2-3 months) - at present system exists in off line setting. (Stealth mode for now :-) )

Cheers

Pawel Lubczonok