Info Central 1.2

Info Central is a data management application for churches, schools, and non-profit organizations that was originally created to meet their data needs. However, the lack of available infrastructure technologies led to the development of experimental technologies that could revolutionize data management applications.

InfoCentral for Java was originally aimed at "fully meeting the data management needs of churches, schools, and non-profit organizations." However, as research and planning progressed, the developers realized that the infrastructure technologies needed to accomplish their goals were simply not available. In light of this, the task of developing yet another boring database application in Java/J2EE quickly lost its appeal. Former lead developer Chris Gebhardt is now working on some experimental technologies which he hopes will someday revolutionize data management applications. This effort is currently called "Project Pelennor." It is likely that the name "InfoCentral" will be re-used for the implementation of ideas developed as part of this research.

Fittingly, the name "InfoCentral" has come to signify our philosophy of data architecture. Information itself should be at the center of computing -- not computers themselves, nor applications, computer languages, user interfaces, or specific data storage mechanisms like files and SQL databases.