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IBM Flexes XML Muscle

Here is another article titled "IBM Flexes XML Muscle" that covers the same general theme: IBM's appreciation of Unified Storage.

As indicated in an earlier post: IBM is clearly validating what we have done with Virtuoso (as was the case initially with their Virtual / Federated DBMS initiative ala DB2 Integrator). Here is an excerpt from today's eWeek article supporting this position:

To achieve maximum XML performance, bolstered indexing attributes in the technology will enable advanced search functions and a higher degree of filtering. IBM is also adding support for XPath and XQuery data models. This will allow users to create views that involve SQL and XQuery by sending the protocol through DB2's query optimizer for a unified query plan.

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Virtuoso has been doing this since 2000; unfortunately a lot of

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GuruNet --- kicking search up a notch (What is SQL?)

Playing around with GuruNet's "answers.com" service earlier today reminded me of past positive experiences with similar internet bootstraps (Yahoo!, Altavista, Google et al).

I have always believed that self-annotation will ultimately drive the realization of the semantic web vision. GuruNet is an interesting effort that should lead down this path.

Here is GuruNet's answer to the question: What Is SQL?

The Web Services, XML, and RDF angles should be pretty obvious (I hope!).

BTW - GuruNet does have a sync latency issue re. Wikipedia that it will need to address sooner rather than later.

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01/03/2005 23:03 GMT-0500 Modified: 06/22/2006 08:56 GMT-0500
         
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