USB sticks can move files around, but they are slow and cumbersome. Email works too, until you hit that magical file size limit on your email system. How about a portable Web server?

Working with CouchDB is very straightforward. There's virtually no setup involved and no complicated libraries to hassle with.

It's funny isn't it? By default, any Linux distribution comes with business server functionality like an e-mail, file, and print serving, but Microsoft still gets the lion's share of the small business server world.