I failed to make the case for emerging strong analytical markets (text;sentiment analysis and such) before it arrived (circa 1996). When it did emerge, everyone seemed to want to climb on the big data bandwagon– wanting to see large unnatural numbers and statistics (that had to be manually scrutinized, analyzed by IT statisticians).

Now that those markets are growing the case ought to be easier to make. There is a recognized shortage of “analytical capacity”. The larger share of that shortage could be made up with the right inductive application.

Readware makes it possible for line staff and management (or us poor entrepreneurs) to do sentiment analysis from text stores at their desk – w/o assistance from IT staff. The technical resources to make this an open source product are trivial. The business resources are the issue and I am in complete agreement that this is the question you should be asking, once the ROI question is satisfied..

Another potential market is with decision support, specifically guidance and assistance with determining X given the desired outcome Y. This would be something new.

Readware technology — the platform — sits on a Windows or Linux stack. A Cloud architecture makes sense w/access to results on phones and tablets. As a member of MITi’s architectural team, I can say that it was designed from the ground up to be as sound, stable and reliable as any other db engine and resource. We built around a service model (e.g. SAAS) for adding resources (describable data, e.g, text, terms, names, concepts or knowledge types) and responding to inquires.about it resources. It proved to be all those things.

Readware core is written in ANSI C while the wrappers (in the network environment/at user interface) are written in the desired OO language. We used public domain C++ compilers along with JAVA, JavaBeans and Javascript. PHP and Perl (with the IpServers). I even wrote some ASP and dallied with various command languages, interpreters and compilers. Besides the core ANSI C Code a lot of which was rewritten from assembly, we had no preference as to programing environment and are ready to adapt..

When you are ready we can make the sources and objects available to you for further testing and consideration..Since this is a public forum, i think we should just email any remaining details.

It is your time that is needed here, so thank you for that.

In any case, this is definitely not a simple open source question. The high barrier of entry in respect to Adi’s concept is not to be under estimated. The complexity is obviously not as simple as writing a CRM or CMS system where most people can easily understand the needs and the desired solutions. So, who ever considers this concept must have the resources and know-how to implement. Therefore, I suspect if you open source Readware, you should consider a MIT or BSD license over a GPL license. This would encourage firms to invest in the concept while not losing the interest of the GPL people.

Having said this, structuring and positioning the entry is difficult at best. I have asked my son to take a look at the concept. We program in c, c++, perl, php, etc., but we prefer C# using mono to target various platforms. I suspect this would have to be some type of S3 or other cloud based undertaking due to the required computing resources to make it worthwhile. By the way, was Readware written in an object-oriented programming language which employs inheritance concepts?

I like the concept, so give us some time to study your posted theoretical information. Next, I want to understand how we can derive a ROI. Last, I want to understand if this is beyond our resources.

Just to clarify one point, we are poor entrepreneurs with a major goal to achieve a ROI. We do not have to become rich, but no ROI, no interest. I understand Readware may be a life’s work. However, life works and ROI do not have to be divergent. If we decide to go forward, we have no problem in sharing the ROI, as long as there is one.

Thank you for your time.

We will soon be moving everything into https://www.readware.org if you are interested.

We have no objection to software. We haven’t met a suitable Open Source business partner yet. Do you know one? I would be happy to entertain the idea of an Open Source Toolkit. The source to the IpServers and developers toolkit would be two products to get started. ConSearch is too dated, But a new ConSearch written in consideration of modern architectures could still be a successful research and analysis tool.

The Egyptians used their intelligence to arrange the activities of their people in order to build the most lasting monuments the world has ever seen, The Germans used their intelligence to make war. The question for America is how be more intelligent in a growing world and changing environment.

So in the ‘system’ of the English Language (the semiotic language of the study), we found no words that formulate containment as a mapping function. Although the possibility exists (because containment is a process) there are no words that are composed to use containment as a function of direct control over other processes and objects formulated in the system.

That seems to be a little different than the notions of a ‘king pin’ or superiority but your intuition seems right to me. The semiotic system of formulating words in (the English) language has no controller (it is devoid of a controller). Control comes from outside the system.