When
· Naughties
· · 2009
· · · April
· · · · 29 (1 entry)
Modeling Is Hard ·
In A post-mortem on the previous IT management revolution William Vambenepe writes, on the subject of standardization: “The first lesson is that protocols are easy and models are hard.” I agree about the relative difficulty, but think when it comes to interoperation, protocols are very difficult and shared models usually impossible. A couple of examples occur to me ... [9 comments]
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