More rants about Object Oriented Data Modeling

I found more interesting discussions about data modeling in the home page of Wilshire Meta-Data Conference. I did not know about that conference, but they have most 'data modeling gurus' as speakers.

In an interview to William G. Smith, he says:

'Other disciplines/players/vendors in the data world (the object-oriented crowd, and the data warehousing advocates) are painfully ignorant of the already-complete and fine data modeling techniques, and bring confusion, ambiguity, and retrograde movement to the table by trying to solve problems, reinvent wheels that have are done deals.'

'As for next step in career: I think an experienced data resource professional is the best candidate for an effective CIO, and data resource professional should set their sites on this position. I see CIOs that are technology/hardware nuts, and their data environments (and usually their application code environments) are inevitably terrible messes. I see CIOs that are application nuts, and their technology and data environments are inevitably terrible messes. BUT, if the CIO is a data nut, not only will the data environment be well organized, minimally redundant, well-documented, and under control, but so will the technology and the application/transaction code! If you manage data well, it is almost impossible to have a code or a technology mess! '

I'm not sure if I disagree with him ;)

At the end of the interview there are some links to other interesting interviews.