Amazingly little real information in all that PR BS. Does this mean simply
that searchers will have access to DWPI via the IBM web site and then be
able to link to and download full-text patents? If so, how will we search
Derwent in this context -- using the IBM search engine? (Fate forfend....)
Or will the system link to DWPI as mounted on one or another of the online
hosts that carry DWPI? If so, which host(s)? And will searchers have any
crossfile/multifile access to other patent databases? Will DWPI in this
context include Derwent Manual Codes, polymer indexing, BCE codes, Markush
structures, other subscriber-only indexing? Will this service be available
only to Derwent subscribers (8 units or more) or to everyone? Where do
Lotus Notes and DB2 come into all this?
The notice said something about "organisations who require in-house
solutions...." Does that mean we have to buy IBM's in-house product to have
access to the IBM-Derwent combination? (N.B. Okay, I'm a curmudgeon, but I
do wish that PR people would stop referring to databases, document
collections, software, etc. as "solutions." They're not, folks. They're
just resources and tools.)
Derwent -- More technical details, please.
Nancy Lambert
nela@chevron.com
510-242-3161
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Dickens [SMTP:DDICKENS@questel.orbit.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 11:37 AM
> To: piug-l@derwent.tecc.co.uk
> Subject: Anyone see this message on the Derwent website?
>
> Anyone see this message on the Derwent website?
>
> Derwent opens up new channels through agreement
> with IBM
>
> Deal creates the world's largest patent collection on the
> Internet
>
> The address is: http://www.derwent.com/ibm.html
>
> David Dickens
>
> Questel-Orbit
>
>
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