It is kind of an interesting idea, from the prospective of information fusion. Unfortunately I spend the majority of my development time doing software integra

It is kind of an interesting idea, from the prospective of information fusion. Unfortunately I spend the majority of my development time doing software integration, to achieve the whole synergy thing - for thinking outside of the box with icons in cornflower blue. These systems are generally rdbms backed, but politics and interesting interpretation of security standards often gets in the way. So most of the work is happening further up the stack, where automation is more difficult and common data formats are more rare. Except... PostScript [0] and PCL [1] (guess who owns that). This shortcuts the whole authorization problem, if you can print the data then you are probably authorized to use it. It shortcuts departmental kingdom building, and everybody already ignores security when it comes to printers... Lots of interesting possibilities. Of course then you'd have a Rube Goldberg machine of data format conversion, so I guess my job is safe for now - but I'm curious to see how HP would address that. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_Command_Language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_Command_Language