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From: Antonis Antoniou <a.antoniou@albourne.com>
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Jean-Michel POURE wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>A friend of mine needs to import and query a very large amount of data, coming 
>from real-time acquisition systems. The database is growing fast, several 
>Tetra-bytes a day.
>
>What is the advancement of the community in the field of very large databases? 
>Could you point out to me some useful information, techdocs, etc...?
>
>Are there working groups, private fundings in this precise field?
>
>Also, in Brussels, at FOSDEM, I met a very brilliant Russian student 
>interested in large indexing technologies. Could he possibly contact me?
>
>  
>

I don't know why but as I was reading this I remembered Frank Sinatra's 
song "Fly Me To The Moon".

Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On a-Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my Tera_hand
In other words, baby, Tera_kiss me

:-)