local electronic acts, an example

[Megan Irvine]

--- "Brian J. Parker" <brian.j.parker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, I just needed a break here, since I'm knee-deep in the new
> generation of SQL Server "Yukon."  Those of us who are
> forward-thinking may have been playing with betas two years ago and
> really coming to understand the .NET/CLR and XML integration, but I'm
> now getting interested in the way the technology is bringing data
> mining to the masses in the same way Kraftwerk said "everybody can
> make music."  You can have large churches or small chain stores doing
> the kind of sophisticated analyses that were once the purview of huge
> organizations with a large, dedicated I.T. staff.  If you're hip at
> all, you realize that this has very real consequences for all of us,
> given the changes in the way everyone will relate to their customers.

I know exactly what you mean. It seems like everyone and their
grandmother is writing their own web search engine these days...

m


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