links for 2009-07-29

Until recently, our server monitoring application, Server Density, was running using MySQL for the backend. Although we primarily provide it as a hosted service, it has been written to work as a standalone application for customers that wish to install on their own servers. This means each customer had their own MySQL database.

Today, there is tremendous activity and promises under the auspices of the Semantic Web covering the academic, research and industrial sectors. This includes numerous accounts of the benefits that this set of new technologies brings to these communities, and ultimately, the end user – underpinned by the RDF and OWL languages. These benefits include the rhetorical “semantics” and much vamped “reasoning” features.