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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Does Enterprise Mean anything any more, in terms of XML de
 I suspect it is pre by a good bit but not in the way we use it now. I don't think it had anything to do with Star Trek or even the WWW. He was writing it for the Academy and Starfleet. It was in the capsule they dropped whenever they thought they were about to die. Whenever they found a dead starship, it was the first thing they restored even when it was 'damaged beyond repair', which means it may have been marked-up. ;-) They could always figure out the technical damage to the ship; it was the decisions that led to the death of the ship they wanted to analyze. Consider it 23rd Century Corporate Memory plus forensics. <personalTestimony> I know that in my case, I wrote my paper on Enterprise Engineering for the CALS conference in 1989/90 because it was superstitious acquisition of learning that concerned me. It wasn't missing but corrupt or mistaken information that was the issue, plus the high cost and slow processes of paper pushing. At GE, we wanted to put systems into nation-states coming from behind the iron curtain where work ethics had failed and late 20th century modernization of manufacturing hadn't happened. We knew that crap at lightspeed was crappy light. The nature of the network as an idea amplifier was a lesson learned from Doug Englebart and Norbert Wiener. We didn't invent anything. The implications of markup and networked communications were pretty obvious pre-web for anyone who was in the nexus of hypertext, object systems, and SGML. I followed my paper with Information Ecosystems later as it became more and more obvious that documents were just messages that varied by lifecycle and addressability and what that revealed to me was how evolution works in dynamic systems that exchange messages. The enterprise itself, is just a confederated or federated set of communicating entities typically arranged as a hierarchy of entities tied together by a network of ports. Chaos theory tossed in concepts of self-similar systems, atractors, etc. </personalTestimony> Again, it all comes down to where you can afford to be certain or uncertain. We've never really gotten beyond Boltzman and Shannon. Entropy is missing information (a damaged captain's log). We just keep renaming it and looking for better algorithms which is why quantum logic is intuitively fascinating even if ultimately not productive. XML counts merely because it enables us to simplify the one thing we all can share: a syntax and an impliable structure for data. Turns out there is a lot of bang for the buck in doing that. You can often fix the Captain's log by implying the missing information. If it fits in a space of a certain kind, you know what is missing. len From: Governor James [mailto:jgovernor@r...] The Enterprise is an anachronism. It's a spaceship flying through space where the captain can make individual decisions that will dictate the success or lack of it, of the enterprise. But we're not flying space ships guys, we're just not that self-sufficient or isolated. Maybe we need to think a lot more about the Federation, the Empire, or something. Just as no man is an island, no enterprise is a spaceship. I mean the captain's log, Stardate whatever- surely it would actually be a massively subscribed blog - Kirk as the Scoble of the future, wheras in the TV show, it always seemed like he was just writing it for himself, and like a black box. Where was the comms. Does anyone know about the origins of the term enterprise in corporate America - was it pre or post Star Trek. 
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