Does anyone think there is any chance of ESRI producing a "sized down" budget version of Oracle specifically for Public Sector bodies? Would ESRI be likely to show any interest in this sort of thing?
David Haycock Forward Planning Dept Swindon Borough Council UK -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2005 15:26 Cc: MapInfo List Subject: Re: MI-L Differences between MapInfo and ArcView. Canfield, Andrew a écrit : > To All, > I agree MapInfo needs to get on the stick and decide on a geodatbase format > for themselves(not Oracle spatial because normal small businesses cannot > afford it). That's right, and my proposal to MapInfo guys that are reading this list is to look at PostGIS, based on PostgresSQL, which is probably the most capable open source DBMS for replacing commercial DBMSes to handle efficiently large amount of data. It can be a good alternative to Oracle for "poor" peoples (like government agencies, at least in France ;-) and small businesses. This, combined to the ability (allways hoped, nnot yet seen) of MapInfo to run on Linux boxes (remember the time where MapInfo could run on a Unix workstation...), could give MapInfo some advantages on open source environments (ESRI did it : you have now a Linux SDK...) -- Michel Wurtz MAAPR/DGA/SDSI/CERIT/DIG --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 15296 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 15298
