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From: jtf@netcom.com (John T. Foley)
Subject: ROCK
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 22:42:52 GMT
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I am a consultant to a project which is looking at various tools for a
large telecommunications application.

In the late 1980's there was a consortium of DEC, US West, TI, and Ford
(I think) which funded a project to build a "standard" object-oriented
knowledge representation. 

This project was done by Carnegie Group and produced a product called
"ROCK". Does anyone know what the status of ROCK is right now?
Is it a product? Is anyone using it for serious projects? Is it
a callable library or does it also give you point-and-click development
tools? Does ROCK include other forms of knowledge
representation (such as rules) than just objects? 
Is ROCK still being developed and marketed by Carnegie Group?

It seems I've seen nothing on this over the last few years and
was wondering what has happened with ROCK? Any information,
especially from ROCK users, would be greatly appreciated.

John Foley 
Objects International

jtf@netcom.com

