Now it is Tim O’reilly turn to talk about this problem. It’s strange to me people believe there would be synchronization problem. This is strange to me because of the way I think the open data system would work.
The current model for application is that the code resides between the user and the database. [...]
Dave winer talks about Data lock-in and this time more people seems to take heed. The story goes from hardware to software to data as the lock-in mechanism allowing companies like IBM, Microsoft and Google to exist. For the people it was always good to break the lock-in. Is data the last frontier or am [...]
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