All,I've written a detailed post [1] about the timelessly important issue of Open Data Access as it relates to Linked Data. I've responded to snippets from a video [2] produced by one of our data access middleware competitors turned co-opetitor [3].
Linked Data is best sold to the enterprise as an improvement over ODBC. Basically, an improvement that takes them from Open Database Connectivity to Open Data Connectivity, courtesy of Web ubiquity.
To the enterprise customer, an HTTP URI is a powerful Data Source Name (DSN) mechanism. Its also a Super Key delivery mechanism since all keys actually resolve to records that are intensional (description oriented propositions in 3-tuple form).
What I outline above is a "deceptively simple" value proposition that any enterprise customer will comprehend, naturally.
Links: 1. http://goo.gl/1dO33 -- Is Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) Dead? 2. http://youtu.be/kxjxlo5yTVk -- Video in full . 3. http://dbpedia.org/page/Coopetition -- Coopetition explained . -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder& CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
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