July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
976 pages
30h 19m
English
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Foreword
by John Zachman, Founder and PresidentZachman International
It gives me great personal pleasure to write this foreword. I wrote the foreword to the first edition of Information Modeling and Relational Databases and to be brutally honest, I liked my first foreword and I haven’t at all changed my mind, with the exception that I like the second edition even more than the first edition, if that is even possible. Anyone familiar with my work would know that I have been arguing for many years that an enterprise ontology must include more structural components than those typically related to information. Terry Halpin and Tony Morgan have incorporated some additional structural variables in this new edition.
I suppose you would have expected ...