Chapter 1: Getting Started

Abstract

Publisher Summary This chapter reveals that some areas of semantics are changing rapidly. It discusses that in the early days of relational databases or object-oriented programming, it mattered less which technology was picked. The important thing was that one moved in that direction and learned what one needed to learn, individually and corporately, to apply these paradigms to one's systems. The chapter also discusses application development, selecting packaged applications, implementing an application package, systems integration, middleware upgrade, knowledge or content-related initiatives, business to business and e-commerce initiatives, Web site upgrades, platform rationalization, software maintenance, and application architecture.