DATA ARCHITECTURE 2023

DATA ARCHITECTURE 2023 RENDERING – A CLARIFICATION

By W H Inmon

In a recent post, a high level data architecture diagrammatic rendering for 2023 was offered to the public, for free. The diagram and its accompanying description showed what a modern data architecture needs to look like, for a high level perspective. In order to get the free data architecture rendering and its description, the landing page for the data architecture rendering is found at forestrimtech.com. The data architecture rendering is free and is open to anyone.

At the bottom of the rendering is the standard copyright disclosure – Copyright, Forest Rim Technology, no copying without written permission.

The protection for the rendering is for direct and complete copying of the diagram and the attribution to Forest Rim. If you want to download and use the rendering as it is presented exactly as shown, then you need to make sure that Forest Rim is attributed.

However, if you want to copy the diagram and modify and customize it to meet your specifications, there is no problem. In fact, that is the purpose of the document. And you don’t need anyone’s permission to do those modifications. Nor do you need to attribute anyone in your customized rendering.

The only intellectual property protection that is required is that if you use the document as it is presented, you need to include the Forest Rim copyright protection.

But if you take the rendition and modify it to meet your own data architecture needs, there is no problem and Forest Rim does not have any claim to your private intellectual property.

In order to download the data architecture rendition for free, just go to forestrimtech.com and look for data architecture.

Bill Inmon lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife and this two Scotty dogs Jeb and Lena. It has snowed a lot in Denver this year and Jeb and Lena miss their daily walks because it is too snowy and icy for their daily walks.