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Tom writes: Is there an enterprise level equivalent of Semantic MediaWiki, a Knowledge Management System that can store meaningful facts and allows queries on it? I'm involved in a pretty large IT project and would like to have the documentation in something better than Word. I'd like it to be in a structured format that can be queried, without knowing all the questions that will be asked in the future. I looked extensively, and while there are some graphing or network layout tools that understand predicates, they don't come with a query language. SMW has both semantic links and queries, but as a wiki is very free-form and it's not exactly an Enterprise product (I don't see many chances to convince a government to use it). Is there such a thing?
Just store a bunch of documents somewhere with a search feature that does full text indexing. Or use a simple Wiki system.
Anything more complicated than that and you'll be the only one using it. Other people won't care enough to spend their time entering data into specific fields and learning a query system.
If they're big enough to be worth suing, they're big enough to afford decent lawyers.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
"Software that requires a purchase order and recurring license" can have its benefits when you are looking for someone to bear legal responsibilities when something goes wrong.
Good luck ever successfully suing and winning against Microsoft et. al. This canard should be roasted over the legal contracts and licensing paperwork.