Re: data & code

"mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message news:W2qtc.13718$L.8029_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> "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 :-)
>
> Well, this is the E0 - hardware and E1 - OS perspective,
> and is quite valid for what layers in represents. ;-)
>
> I purposefully, for the discussion within this group, restrict
> a formal definition to the "computerized" element of an
> organization's "intelligence".
>
> And to be reasonable, the "intelligent" and more organization-
> specific code is found in the RDBMS software (E2) and
> application software (E3) layers.
>
> It is my thesis that only by addressing the union of E2 and E3
> will the next technologically and organizationally demanded
> database system theory be defined.
>
> Theory addressing either layer, since 1979, is incomplete
> (with respect to organizational intelligence), because OI
> is resident in the union of the layers.

While I don't say it the same way, count me in this camp too. I agree we need to treat these together. But, I'm not fond of the "organizational intelligence" term. It sounds like it is the total of the organization's application software, or something else that already has a name? --dawn Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 22:30:49 CEST