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Mash Apache Derby with New OpenOffice 2.0 feature

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."

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  1. Document Storage is hot, hot, hot... by Black-Man · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because the SEC is hot, hot, hot on the trail of your accounting and related correspondences.

  2. Great, but please... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...can we stop "mashing" things. Right now.

    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.

  3. Holy bloated... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OpenOffice, Java and Derby... I hope you have 10GB of RAM to spare.

  4. Uh, what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    An anonymous reader, points us to an IBM article that you can't read without signing up for, gives no summary, and whose title makes no sense "mash apache derby" ? Can we reject stories like this or at least make them clarify what the hell they're even talking about?

    Registration-required links make baby jesus cry.

  5. OpenOffice 2.1? by Lord+Satri · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I know TFA really indicates v2.0, but this "new OpenOffice 2.0" sounds strange considering OpenOffice 2.1 has been in the wild for a while.