Re: SUO: OMG, UML and Ontologies
Robert Meersman wrote:
>
> At 28-02-01 10:40, Francis G. McCabe wrote:
>
> > The bottom line is this: is the SUO effort a primarily academic exercise, or
> > is
> > there willingness to use the tools of Industry to reach Industry?
>
> ### Francis, pray tell, what EXACTLY is your implied/assumed
> exclusion/contradiction here?
I am positive that most `academics' would love for their work to be used in a
widespread way, e.g., in Industry (capitals intended). I, for one, used to be
one, and shared that ambition and couldnt quite figure why so many brain dead
technologies made it when brilliant ones failed.
But, wanting and achieving are separate. I dont have a prescription for success;
I only know some of the strategies that failed.
One guiding principle: the customer is always right. In the context of SUO and
Industry, that may mean that the customer is already using UML and doesnt want
to use a completely different technology to do something that is already almost
being done with another one.
There are other guiding principles, but I am not sure that I am the right person
to be educator here.
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