Expert Explodes Page Equivalency Myth
When parties to a big lawsuit couldn't agree on a vendor to host an electronic document repository, the court appointed me to help. Poring over multimillion dollar bids, I saw the vendors were told to assume that a gigabyte of data equals 22,500 pages. If the dozens of entities involved produced their documents in a mix of TIF images and native formats -- spreadsheets, word-processed documents, e-mail, compressed archives, maps, photos, engineering drawings -- how sensible was it to assume 22,500 pages per gigabyte?
(Source: http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1186477613170.)
