In 2007 the Estonian defenders realized that many of their websites were based on Content Management Systems that built every web page on the fly from a database.

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European scientists have turned on the first part of a web-based database of information to help them cope.

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Last month on the CrunchBase blog, SiSense revealed CrunchAnalytics, its Web-based, free analytical platform built on top of the CrunchBase database.

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