Re: Modelling Considered Harmful
From: Kenneth Downs <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:39:46 -0400
Message-Id: <kch4k2-94q.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net>
>
> The way I use this vocabulary: "The allocation process is the model
> of one aspect of the business, it's datamodel is a part of that
> model. The database and procedures conforming to that model provide
> the record-keeping to support this aspect of the business."
>
> ISTM this makes sense, and I don't (yet? convince me :-) see how
> making this statement without the word model would better help me
> understand.
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:39:46 -0400
Message-Id: <kch4k2-94q.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net>
mAsterdam wrote:
>> gnuoytr wrote: >>>but an ERP/BOM database is used as a guide to build widgets. >> >> an erp system is uses the records of demand to generate requests for >> supply, and to prove the requests were made by making a record of them. >> Record-keeping. The allocation process makes it automated record-keeping >> actually.
>
> The way I use this vocabulary: "The allocation process is the model
> of one aspect of the business, it's datamodel is a part of that
> model. The database and procedures conforming to that model provide
> the record-keeping to support this aspect of the business."
>
> ISTM this makes sense, and I don't (yet? convince me :-) see how
> making this statement without the word model would better help me
> understand.
As for allocation, it is a process. Before computers it was conducted by people. Unless they were striking in appearance, we did not call them models. The program replaces a human being in performing a record-keeping task, nothing more.
-- Kenneth Downs Secure Data Software, Inc. (Ken)nneth_at_(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)Received on Wed Apr 27 2005 - 15:39:46 CEST