Re: Definitions of Software and Database

From: mountain man <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 03:06:19 GMT
Message-ID: <LObIf.7632$yK1.2369@news-server.bigpond.net.au>

"dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1138989946.721222.245490_at_g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

> my question is: What is
> a precise definition for the term "software" when used in the phrase
> "software developer" and (how) does software relate to databases?

Data and software are like ying and yang: one is totally useless without the other and it is pointless developing a theory of one without sufficient scope to include the other.

Stored procedures written in SQL and stored in a database must certainly satisfy the condition of being "software".

Under the current standard RM which is a data-centric model of 30 years ago, there exists no relationship whatsoever between software and data.

We suggest that theory needs to be evolved otherwise: http://www.mountainman.com.au/software/Theory_of_Organizational_Intelligence.htm

-- 
Pete Brown
www.mountainman.com.au

Received on Mon Feb 13 2006 - 21:06:19 CST