Document management system

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce costs and to make servers to cooperate even when the number of servers increases by managing independently each server, using an electronic mail as a means of exchanging information of each server in performing document management in cooperation of plural servers and making it not necessary to construct a distribution data base. SOLUTION: The device is constituted so that, when a DB information communication program 34 of a server A retrieves a document data base 33 and retrieves information updated in the document data base 33, the updated information is read out of the document data base 33, processed into electronic mail information and transmitted to another server B. A DB information communication program 44 of the server B receiving the electronic mail transmitted by the DB information communication program 34 updates a document data base 43 on the basis of the contents of the received electronic mail.