Hi, but let me play the devil's advocate. And actually this is something I have been asked sometimes by time by people not strictly in the linked-data crowd. How do you quantify the business generated ? Is there some success story with a quantification of business savings due to adopting a Linked-Data infrastructure ? Or perhaps some estimate of revenues/sales from linked-data based products ?
Then there are a few other considerations to be made. I'm not familiar with Jazz products, but looking at the website is a complete suite of things. Is Linked-Data used as a flagship products for a suite where the other components are what people is willing to pay for ? Also, where do we trace the boundary of what is linked data and what is not ? Beyond a strict technical definition, if somebody takes a linked-data resource, put it into a graph database and doesn't use RDF/sparql anymore... we could argue that the value (eventually) generated is still at some point due to the availability of linked-data resources. Or not ? Again, I'm playing the devil's advocate here, I'm not needing to be convinced. But I'm expressing some reflections that were actual comments of people, to which I didn't really know what to answer, except that they should think at linked-data like highways... best, Andrea Il giorno 07/giu/2013, alle ore 10:31, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya <[email protected]> ha scritto: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Andrea Splendiani > <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the issue is not whether there is money or not in linked data, but: > how much money is in linked data ? > > Lot of money has been injected by research funds, maybe governments and maybe > even industry. > Is the business generated of less, more, or just about the same value ? > > As it was mentioned several times in this thread, Linked Data for Enterprise > Application Integration has generated a lot of business and there is a lot of > money in it. One good example would be IBM Jazz products [2] based on Linked > Data [1]. > > Best Regards, > Nandana > > [1] - https://jazz.net/story/about/about-jazz-platform.jsp > [2] - https://jazz.net/products/ > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and > we believe but do not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments thereto do > not contain any viruses. However, you are fully responsible for performing > any virus scanning.
