On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:58 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > > The web is not *only* an OS. It also provides the backing data for a > very large unstructured database. Google of course realize this, as > their company rests on a search engine. The semantic web folks have > tried in vain to get people to add more structure to the database. > What the "web OS" must do is allow the efficient export of additional > *unstructured and ad hoc* data. HTML+CSS web applications today are [...]
Sorry for the tanget, but there is no such thing as an "unstructured database." Whether talking about the logical or physical level, a database is a specfication of data structure (and constraints upon that data). Dr. Kay once characterised computing as a "pop culture," and statements such as the above reflect that. Regards, Mike _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
