“The fashion for ‘web mashups’ just got a steroid boost with the
release of a browser that is really a desktop database, with full
SQL scripting and the ability to manipulate tabular data found on
the Internet.“The browser, Kirix Strata, started life two years ago as a
Linux desktop database, said Kirix founder and president, Nate
Williams. He told The Register that ‘the world seemed very excited
about it at the time, but sadly, the demand for a Linux desktop
database, however powerful, wasn’t large… people really wanted
server products like MySQL…'”
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