MySQL wants to build 'database in the sky' | InfoWorld

 Hmm...  I'd like to see the logical data model for this...

MySQL AB wants to launch a global project to build a massive, distributed repository containing all of the world's data now stored in structured databases, the company's chief executive officer said Thursday.

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The project seeks to apply the open-source model to data, so that developers worldwide could share and aggregate data, Mickos said. "Then the data would be the platform," Mickos said. He envisions, for example, being able to tap into all of the world's structured databases that have weather information.

Source: MySQL wants to build 'database in the sky' | InfoWorld