Advantages of Memory Sharing

（Edited by freelance Chinese translator li – English to Chinese or Chinese to English translation services）

If managed correctly, translation units (sentences and phrases) created and managed by one vendor can be used by another vendor, reducing costs. Additionally by merging the memory resource there is no longer any duplication of memory maintenance overheads. Therefore there should be a reduction in the running costs of the memory.

There is a perception that by sharing memories on line (or otherwise) that this will make their contents available for general use, such as in the authoring process. It should be noted however that translation memory tools such as Trados are built for daily use professional translators; the software is not designed for ease of client use for this purpose.