NASA selects $12m knowledge management system

NASA has selected California-based Ares to maintain and support its established Web-based process-based mission assurance knowledge management system.

The five-year contract, which provides for standard system support, infrastructure, information and content management, has a maximum value of $12 million, according to Sys-Con Media.

Oracle unveiled two tools to provide users of its database with enhanced content and records management capabilities.

Oracle has previously focused on how to manage structured data, but with the addition of Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database, it will provide software that enables its customers and partners to manage unstructured content, writes TMC-Net.

At the launch, Oracle president Charles Phillips pointed to Oracle and industry research that suggests 80% of any company`s data is unstructured versus 20% that`s structured. Ninety percent of the unstructured data is currently unmanaged, he said.

Socialtext has announced a partnership with Dan Bricklin (inventor of VisiCalc) to exclusively distribute, redistribute and co-develop wikiCalc, a social spreadsheet.

The Gilbane Report explains Bricklin released wikiCalc Beta under an open source GPL distribution, allowing people to use and modify the Web-based spreadsheet.

In the coming days Socialtext will release wikiCalc under a more liberal and commercial friendly distribution, it adds.