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.
The term TAR is short for Tape ARchive. A tarball or tarfile is the name that describes a group or archive of files that are bundled together using the tar command and usually have the .tar file extension. If the tarfile is compressed using gzip command the tarball will end with tar.gz.