I want to know the number of worlwide instant messaging users in 2002
and number forecasted for the year 2006 and number of forecasted
instant messages sent for both those years.  I also want to know the
worldwide forecast (in terabytes if it were scanned) for the print
production of orginal office documents, Books, newsletters,
periodicals, mass market periodicals and journals for 2006.  I also
want to know the amount of unstructured text information produced and
stored annually worldwide in companies for the years 1999 through to a
forcast for 2006.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 17 Aug 2004 12:22 PDT

There is a well-known study of the "amount" of information out there,
called, simply, How Much Information, 2003:


http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/


It doesn't directly answer your numerous questions, but it may be the
closest thing you can get to an answer.  Please have a look at the
above link, and let us know if this information-about-information is
useful to you at all, and if so, what additional sorts of information
would help in creating a full-fledged answer.

Thanks.

pafalafa-ga 

Thanks.

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by bryguy4545-ga on 18 Aug 2004 07:31 PDT

Thanks for the response.  I am very familiar with the Berkeley report,
in fact part of my request was to fill in some missing pieces that
they did not have...  (the berkeley report does not have the specific
answers i am looking for)

it would be great if you could separate Enterprise information in the
following areas:
If you could get unstructured (text) information growth (past couple
years, current and projected) and compare the growth to the growth of
structured data and rich media?