Re: the relational model of data objects *and* program objects

From: Alexandr Savinov <savinov_at_host.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:25:45 +0200
Message-ID: <425e6151$1@news.fhg.de>

>>2. Existing models and a large number of people satisfied with them. 


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> Not sure if you meant this to be ironic, but it gave me a chuckle. People
> who are perfectly happy with what they have will, with good reason,
> distrust somebody who asks them to give it all up for his Theory of
> Everything. If everyone is getting fed, what exactly is the problem?

Problems appears when somebody is getting hungry. Only in this case people are starting looking for alternative. Otherwise they not only distrust anything new but prevent from those things to appear. Moreover, the concept of true and false, good and bad are based on these things. Until people are satisfied with, say, relational model, it is qualified as a true and good model.

>>Of 
>>course, those people do not prevent you to create a new alternaitve
>>approach but normally their leaders (orthodox clericals) are quite
>>aggresive and see their role in protecting the "true values" and their
>>flock of believers from anything new coming from outside. So your
>>attempts may be quite dangerous for you.
>>

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> Indeed <sigh>. The good news is that the commercial world is in fact a
> meritocracy, if you remember that the judges are the customers, not the
> managers. A good manager is usually a poor innovator, but customers, by
> voting with their dollars, will reward the innovator.

It is so but in practice the system is more complicated. The customers are "protected" by corporations just like believers are "protected" by their leaders. (It is not bad, because any system needs some indirection and some brakes.) Thus the ideas need to be accumulated and concentrated in order to break through natural borders and artificial protection mechanisms.

On the other hand, for any system that protects itself from foreign influence there exist the following defence strategies:

1. destroy or ingnore a foreigner
2. absorb new stuff and take it under control
3. develop it further under another name

Normally they are used in this very order.

alex
http://conceptoriented.com Received on Thu Apr 14 2005 - 07:25:45 CDT