Mash Apache Derby with New OpenOffice 2.0 feature 52
An anonymous reader writes "Document storage is hot, hot, hot! There has been an explosion of methodologies and tool sets — both open source and proprietary — to fulfill the demand for quickly locating and searching documents. Mash Apache Derby with a new OpenOffice 2.0 feature to create a repository that lets you store, search, and extract ODF documents in a standards-based manner."
Sirs (Score:1, Funny)
Document Storage is hot, hot, hot... (Score:5, Insightful)
Great, but please... (Score:5, Insightful)
It is a silly new word, which brings no new meaning.
There are plenty of good alternatives, technical or not -- combine, connect, link, interface, integrate, etc.
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Re:Great, but please... (Score:5, Funny)
It is a silly new word, which brings no new meaning.
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Re:Great, but please... (Score:5, Funny)
One could make any number of Apache squirting jokes but this is
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Out with the old, static Mashing. In with the synergized New Vocabulary Economy.
Holy bloated... (Score:4, Insightful)
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Derby is actually quite small, it is around 1mb, compared to 42 mb for most MySQL downloads for instance. And it is a very capable database engine. Java takes up a lot of memory to increase performance, true, but only if it is unused memory, and you can decrease the size used with JVM startup parameters and still get very good performance.
OO, ok, I'll give you that. It is probably the biggest app in a given Linux installation, but compared t
Uh, what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Registration-required links make baby jesus cry.
Second that! (Score:3, Informative)
And what is even more amazing, after logging in (with bugmenot) the beginning of the article makes no mention what the special feature of OOo actually isThe go straight into installing and building a db. No mention whatsoever what the problem area is and why his solution is a good one. That combined with the silly pageturning thing made me give up reading it.
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You know, the Firehose [slashdot.org] is there for exactly that reason.
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Moo (Score:2)
Don't look now, but your apachiderbis is showing...
Ummmm. Ok (Score:2)
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He's probably a subcontractor. IBM/NG/LM all share personnel back and forth on projects. It's not uncommon to run into people who've worked for years on projects for one company, while getting their paychecks from somebody else. I think it's because the big contracting companies seem to avoid pilfering staff from each other, and instead just subcontract them out. I can't decide if this sort of
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It's better than joblessnes, but often worse from a work/life balance as you are still always trying to get onto the next big contract.
-nB
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I'm used to this term referring to
That's a hot button for me, as back in the mid-eighties, I saw two semiconductor companies (the only two) in the same small town work a no-pilfering agreement. If you worked for one, t
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Gee I don't know. Probably because Northrop Grumman has a lot of experience with managing huge amounts of documents.
BTW Northrop Grumman also built the Lunar Lander.
Sharepoint Competitor (Score:2, Interesting)
Well done!
What's so new about this... (Score:5, Informative)
Haven't these folk heard of Web-DAV before?
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Now, according to Jeremy Allison [linuxworld.com], CIFS seems to be the best way to share stuff. I think he's right. At least, I can't think of any more reliable cross-platform file share technology.
Sigh.
"Mash" my fist and your face ... (Score:5, Funny)
Can we please not "mash" anything??? (Score:5, Funny)
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S.
While we're at it, can we stop "blogging"? (Score:1)
Um, Hurp, Caugh, BLOOOGGGGGGGGGGGG.
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OpenOffice 2.1? (Score:3, Insightful)
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OOo can already be used with any WebDAV enabled server. Just enter the collection URI in the name field of the open document dialog, and off you go.
Alfresco (Score:2)
It's Called a "Web Server"... (Score:3, Funny)
'Registration' sites not a problem, article is (Score:1)
Is it better than iManage? (Score:2)
"new feature of OpenOffice 2.0" (Score:1)
"mash it with a new feature in OpenOffice 2.0, the Open Document Format (ODF)"
wow. I somehow expected more.
r.
Chris Tucker writes for /. (Score:1)