I just want to say, I am so far just very very impressed with Virtuoso all
around--in so many respects. The SQL is easy to work with, the web-based
tools are great. The feature set, such as semantic web and xml support are
just extraordinary. I haven't tried the Jena interface, but I'd like to look
into that to see if Virtuoso might work as a Drop in replacement for the VIVO
project we have currently using Jena.
It should be the new MySQL if Oracle continues to destroy their product
lines.
That said, no software is ever perfect. To me, the clearest inhibitive
factor to popular adoption is the documentation. It's not horrible but could
be made much better organized, more explicit, and complete (not that it
should be too wordy, either). Also, on UNIX, the default install is not FHS
compliant but easily fixed.
Matthew C. Tedder, Software Engineer
Clinical & Translational Research Informatics Program
College of Medicine, University of Florida
