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The computer aided design databases for an automobile, when you have 3D models for the parts, the tooling, plant layout, etc. is in the low terabyte range. As another example, Boeing dedicates about 14 terabytes to commercial airplane geometry data storage.

Or Astronomy. A planning document talks about a project generating 300 terabytes per year.

Interesting someone should mention RFID, as I've recently an article which mentions it's use on a site we've already seen today.

Seems Prada (because every woman needs a $600 plain black purse) is trying all sorts of new tech in their newest New York store (and failing from the sound of it). The relevent bit comes from their experience with using RFID's in all the items' sales tags (to link up to the DB, to inform consumers of other products, to PROFIT etc) Unfortunately, the computers, monitors, power cables and data cables in the store interfere with the RFID tags so badly that all sorts of location-specific tuning of the receivers needed to be done to get them to work - and they only worked passably when every cable was well shielded.

The upshot I suppose is that RFID simply can't be ubiquotous enough to be worrying for a few years anyway.

Interesting someone should mention RFID, as I've recently an article which mentions it's use on a site we've already seen today.

Seems Prada (because every woman needs a $600 plain black purse) is trying all sorts of new tech in their newest New York store (and failing from the sound of it). The relevent bit comes from their experience with using RFID's in all the items' sales tags (to link up to the DB, to inform consumers of other products, to PROFIT etc) Unfortunately, the computers, monitors, power cables and data cables in the store interfere with the RFID tags so badly that all sorts of location-specific tuning of the receivers needed to be done to get them to work - and they only worked passably when every cable was well shielded.

The upshot I suppose is that RFID simply can't be ubiquotous enough to be worrying for a few years anyway.

... and one page version of article.

Baseline magazine, a periodical dedicated to IT management, covered the new FAA STARS system from an IT project management point of view in a recent issue.

You can view the case study on-line, or download the PDF file.

I found it to be a very good in-depth article delving into many of the issues surrounding such a massive IT project.

Baseline magazine, a periodical dedicated to IT management, covered the new FAA STARS system from an IT project management point of view in a recent issue.

You can view the case study on-line, or download the PDF file.

I found it to be a very good in-depth article delving into many of the issues surrounding such a massive IT project.

Baseline magazine, a periodical dedicated to IT management, covered the new FAA STARS system from an IT project management point of view in a recent issue.

You can view the case study on-line, or download the PDF file.

I found it to be a very good in-depth article delving into many of the issues surrounding such a massive IT project.

They are, I presume, going to laugh all the way to the bank with the added bonus of not even being required to provide whatever goods and services were purchased.

Check out this $1.5 billion subsidy Uncle Sam gave to IBM. What Oracle is doing is nothing new...it's been happening for years, and will continue to happen.