At the same time the HP Surestore Tape Library 10/100 can scale from 3.2Tb to 10Tb and supports several tape formats. On the hardware side HP's announcement concentrated on its Surestore 181GB small footprint disk drive that can scale from 37 to...
OASIS is one of a handful of organisations that is active in establishing XML formats for exchanging data and processing between companies. An ebusiness standards body has proposed a series of definitions for how corporations should create common...
Part of the appeal is that QuickBase's forms-based design allows easy customisation to suit specific business tasks, and formats can be shared with partners and the world at large. The service has since grown to encompass a variety of business...
First, while there are DRM software companies such as SealedMedia and Authentica whose products can deal with a variety of document formats, it is preferable to have a standardised software environment in place to minimise the operational overhead.
Microsoft's XML-related patents seek to convince the public it believes in open formats while requiring them to pay for access to their data. The concepts were always sound, and they were all invented before Microsoft even existed.
Earlier this month, Pepoli said that state agencies will be able to choose which formats they create and save documents in. In a letter posted by the US state's IT division, Henry Dormitzer, undersecretary of administration and finance, and Bethann...