Building the (Data) Base

"Gigabit ethernet is going to be the great enabler of database technology," Heidelberg's Danny Kita, reports. At Heidelberg, Kita manages the Operations Analysis Group, which is the consulting arm of Heidelberg USA, where he is active in Wide Area and Local Area Network projects. "Because of the extra stress client/server operations put on the network, we have typically tried to avoid their use in prepress data networks—until recently."