12 months

Michael Scott points us to a report suggesting that one way to deal with the privacy issues of data stored online is to set up databases that automatically have plans to let data "fade away" over a certain period of time.

Of course, I'm not sure what's particularly new or unique about this. Lots of companies have systems in place to purge types of data after it reaches a certain age.

Internetnews: "Sun Microsystems in an SEC filing Tuesday disclosed that it will lop off up to 3,000 jobs in the next 12 months as it and Oracle await the European Commission's approval of their proposed $7.4 billion merger."

New global research forecasts a swift rise in development plans for Software as a Service applications in the next 12 months.