| weSee |
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Traditional technology |
| Meta information about pictures and documents is stored in the file itself. If the file is moved, the information will automatically follow. |
Meta information is stored in a database in some other place. If a picture is sent by e-mail, the information muse be sent detached. | |
| No pedantic tidiness is required. If the picture or document is in your computer, you will find it. |
A database system requires pedantic discipline. Files changing name or moved can be lost forever. | |
| If the file changes its name, the information is still there. | If the file is moved or the file name is altered the information will be lost. | |
| It is easy to identify objects in a picture or on a map. | Identifying objects in a picture is complicated. | |
| With weSee you can link files as well as objects to each other. | Files and objects can not be linked together with databases + HTML. | |
| Meta information can be retrieved even after 100 years. | Sooner or later the picture-file and the database will lose each other. | |
| Information can be stored in many languages but in your computer you only see your specific language. | Handling many languages is complicated. | |
| A weSee licence will cost less than 100 Euro and the annual costs are low. | The licence fee for database systems ranges from 1 000 to 10 000 Euro. Annual costs can be much higher. |
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| The market: 500 000 000 people connected to Internet around the world. | The market: Companies and organisations with employed staff. | |