I've worked with Oracle UCM (formerly Stellent) for a few years now and would thoroughly recommend it. It's scalable into (at least) the 10s of billions of documents. A single repository for Doc Management, Records, Web Content Management, workflow, imaging. It comes with security, library services, metadata, and search OOTB. Using the WCM, you can make your documents available on an intranet, extranet or internet site, according to specified security policies.
BTW... offices on satellites... that's so cool!;-)
I agree with everything you say, with one exception:
Even with a "finished product", the distributors will not go for it until they can reliably DRM the content itself. They are scared that one person will pay for the download, then distribute it to a thousand of their closest friends... recursively!
Personally, I'd rather be arse-raped with barbed wire than be forced into using any hardware or software that enforces DRM. I imagine there would be many others who feel (roughly) the same way, so I can't see it taking off any time soon. On the other hand, there are probably enough 'everyday Jo(e)s' out there who have no idea what DRM is to make it worth their while.
Good point... I work indoors in a darkened room. Although the area in which I live has very low humidity. Probably not enough to be able to see the beam... but I'll give it a go (once I've checked there are no planes around!;-)
OK, let's forget about those movies depicting security systems with plainly visible laser beams moving around the room...
In order to see a laser beam, or any light beam for that matter, some of the light must hit something and bounce back to your eyes. The stars are too far away to reflect anything, so unless it's a particularly foggy (or dusty) night, you won't see anything and you'd be better off pointing with a stick!
And as an optical physicist who has often worked with lasers, I've never seen a laser (even a green one) that has a visible beam.
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I've worked with Oracle UCM (formerly Stellent) for a few years now and would thoroughly recommend it. It's scalable into (at least) the 10s of billions of documents. A single repository for Doc Management, Records, Web Content Management, workflow, imaging. It comes with security, library services, metadata, and search OOTB. Using the WCM, you can make your documents available on an intranet, extranet or internet site, according to specified security policies.
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BTW... offices on satellites... that's so cool!
They could have had it rated MA15 if the blue guy had kept his underpants on! I don't think it would have affected the storyline.
I agree with everything you say, with one exception:
Even with a "finished product", the distributors will not go for it until they can reliably DRM the content itself. They are scared that one person will pay for the download, then distribute it to a thousand of their closest friends... recursively!
Personally, I'd rather be arse-raped with barbed wire than be forced into using any hardware or software that enforces DRM. I imagine there would be many others who feel (roughly) the same way, so I can't see it taking off any time soon. On the other hand, there are probably enough 'everyday Jo(e)s' out there who have no idea what DRM is to make it worth their while.
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This is interesting too... http://www.gmsp.org/(srgqkk3je5wh0m55cf5oth24)/faq _detail.aspx?FaqID=87
Good point... I work indoors in a darkened room. Although the area in which I live has very low humidity. Probably not enough to be able to see the beam... but I'll give it a go (once I've checked there are no planes around! ;-)
In order to see a laser beam, or any light beam for that matter, some of the light must hit something and bounce back to your eyes. The stars are too far away to reflect anything, so unless it's a particularly foggy (or dusty) night, you won't see anything and you'd be better off pointing with a stick!
And as an optical physicist who has often worked with lasers, I've never seen a laser (even a green one) that has a visible beam.