Re: data & code

"x" <x-false_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:40b60683$1_at_post.usenet.com...
> "Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message
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> > "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > > Very good. So, mountain man's "Organizational Intelligence" is the
set
> of
> > > all data?
> >
> > It is the set of all the bytes in the hard disk :-)
>
> Or perhaps the bits in all devices, wires, media, brains, etc. in the
past,
> present and future ? :-)

The theory is restricted to "computerized OI" but you raise an interesting issue introducing time. You see, the current theory assumes the relationship between truths in set theory (RDBMS storage of data) and the truths operationally engineered between this data and the external world (via a user interface).

In time, the world changes, and without doing anything, the data at the heart of any implementation instance of the relational model, loses its integrity, because there is no dynamic built into the fundamental (RM) model.

Pete Brown
Falls Creek
Oz Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 20:02:30 CEST