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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (583)	12/1/1999 6:53:00 PM
From: Jay Lowe	Respond to of 1782

As it appears that SI is thin-client thread-bare, I've created a forum appropriate for in-depth discussion of this rapidly evolving software model. Subject 32027 >> doubt very seriously if they will do this in the near term, though Yes. Microsoft has perhaps 12-18 months before they really begin to feel the bite. I predict a web-based Office Lite which is effectively free and upsells the rest of Office. In 1982, I tried to convince Gates and Simonyi of the need for a semantic object layer within Windows ... so that the user could create objects such as people, tasks, projects ... whatever data models of real-world entities they wanted ... and refer to these entities in an application-independent fashion ... e.g., this cell contains the Salary of the Person whose Name is "Foo". Apart from the distinctions between semantic modeling, relational, or networked database designs, the essential idea of giving data a "life of meaning" independent of particular applications is extraordinarily powerful ... and one which we still do not have today ... instead we have the $&%$(&% clipboard. The web application folks these days are calling "data independence" the ability to keep your data on the web separate from any particular PC. Is anyone offering the capability of creating true semantic independence ... where your data is truly independent of the applications which create and access it? This idea has even more profound implications on the web ... where people could refer to the data objects of others.