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What a fun question. Forget the numbers -- how does one
even begin to define "the world's data"?
Are we measuring in bytes or characters?
Do copies count? Caches? Spam? Video?
- Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:len.bullard@intergraph.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:18 AM
To: XML Developers List
Subject: [xml-dev] How Much of the Data in The World Is In XML Format?
"..about 40 percent of the world's data is in an XML format. "
http://news.com.com/IBM+to+release+near-ready+DB2+Viper+database/2100-10
10_3-6057835.html?tag=nl
I wonder where he got that number. I am doubtful.
len
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