Article:		Something Useful This Way Comes
Subject:		a catch-22?
Date:		2004-06-14 19:06:12
From:		acroyear
I see it as one of those problems of selling something before it can be useful. if you can't sell it to data providers, you won't get the data (or "knowledge") you need to make it a viable thing to sell. Certainly the feds (DARPA, especially) were looking at their side of it for TIA and other information-gathering technologies, but they aren't likely to share their data, so it still becomes a hard sell to everybody else. Its also, aside from surveillance/intelligence applications garnering a lot of undesired attention, hard to say just what you could do with all of that "knowledge". lots of little examples of tips and tricks (many that can be duplicated with the right stored proceedure on oracle) hardly add up to the killer app needed to get vendors to buy into the idea and convert their data into knowledge on the SOW.

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