[SCL] RDF in an SCL world

[Jim Hendler]

At 19:38 -0400 7/15/04, John F. Sowa wrote:
>Bill,
>
>I certainly agree that we have to deal with RDF, which
>is already gathering a fairly significant following.
>
>But the fact that OWL is less expressive than SQL means
>it has no future:  Any new system has an uphill battle
>in contending with entrenched technology.  If the new
>system has *less* functionality than the old one, it
>is doomed.  The fact that most web servers are already
>using SQL to store operational data means that the
>programmers are more likely to use SQL constraints than
>OWL constraints.
>
>My prediction:  People will extract RDF data, put it
>into SQL databases, use SQL constraints instead of
>OWL, and use SQL as the query language.


OWL is less expressive than SQL???  Where does that follow from John?
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