In 2000, LexisNexis purchased RiskWise, a St. Cloud, Minnesota company. In 2002 it acquired a Canadian research database company, Quicklaw. In 2004, Reed Elsevier Group, parent company of LexisNexis, purchased Seisint, Inc, of Boca Raton, Florida.
Format for interchanging spreadsheet/database data; recognized by Filemaker, Excel, and others. MER stands for Format for interchanging spreadsheet/database data; recognized by Filemaker, Excel, and others.
Tar (for Tape ARchive) is a UNIX shell command that creates a single file called an archive from a number of specified files or extracts the files from such an archive. A tar archive has the file suffix .tar. The files in a tar archive are not compressed, just gathered together in one file.