KnowNow has unveiled technology it says can provide busy employees with updated, personalised feeds of information compiled from internal sources such as enterprise applications and external sources like news sites and blogs.
Two years ago, I gave the keynote address on the opening day of the XML 2003 conference. The next day, Adam Bosworth delivered a weirdly complementary keynote in which he began to lay out an idea he’s been developing ever since — first at BEA and now at Google. The idea, in a nutshell, is that the truly scalable databases of the future will be more like the web than like Oracle, DB2 or SQL Server.