Hypernumbers is a new commercial web-based spreadsheet. It addresses several risk factors in deploying spreadsheets. Traditional risk management of spreadsheets has focused on run-time risk incorrect formulae, accidental overwriting of formula, unapproved adaption of the spreadsheets structure by an unapproved person and so on. The sources and lifecycles of spreadsheet errors are by now quite w...

We present our vision of a new group collaboration infrastructure, the Networked Semantic Desktop, drawing from co-evolving research in the Semantic Web, Peer-toPeer (P2P) Networks, and Online Social Networking.

This paper describes the structure and performance characteristics of a commercial file system designed for use on desktop, laptop, and notebook computers running the UNIX operating system. Such systems are characterized by their small disk drives dictated by system size and power requirements. In addition, these systems are often used by people who have little or no experience administering Un...

Today, online transaction processing applications can downsize from mainframes to microprocessors. Commodity database systems, operating systems, and hardware came of age in 1993., -they surpassed the online transaction processing performance of proprietary solutions. There are lingering doubts about downsizing batch transaction processing applications. The doubts center on the ability of micro...