Greg Alvord wrote:
> · Is the interoperable canonical data model connecting the
> systems of a company a bug or feature. Enterprise Bus design uses the
> approach.
>
Inside one company. if that company isn't too big or diverse, you can
force everyone to use the same software and the same data model. In a
small company or organization, this may even happen naturally. However
the larger and more distributed companies, organizations, and groups
become, the harder it is to enforce a single data model because
different organizations and individuals have different ways of seeing
the world. This is natural, and there's nothing wrong with it. Some of
the techniques that work in single organizations fail when applied to
multiple organizations or on Internet scale.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
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