title: Lockheed experience in processing large data bases for its commercial information retrieval service.
abstract: The last few years have seen the emergence of the information retrieval services industry. This industry consists of three tiers: data base producers, retrieval service vendors, and information centers who service the end user. The experience of Lockheed Information Systems as a retrieval service vendor is recounted as it pertains to its system and to its relationship with the data base suppliers. Government competition is seen as a potential threat to the industry.
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D007221:Industry; D007256:Information Systems; D009862:Online Systems