In my day job, we are architecting an ArcSDE on Oracle Enterprise GIS. ESRI is pushing its ST_GEOMETRY Spatial Data Type for Oracle, and that's fab. I want to use it.
Evidently, ROI is greatest when you can bring your spatial data to the greatest number of people in an Enterprise, and that includes non-GIS clients using spatial operators--if, of course, it helps them do their jobs better. Our database group is an HP/Oracle shop. That's fixed for now. And they'd like to use RedHat/Itanium II as a platform for SDE. Here's the rub: while ST_GEOMETRY will work on RedHat/Itanium II, to use the spatial SQL operators, binaries have to be installed on the Oracle server. And ESRI simply doesn't provide those binaries for RedHat/Itanium II (although it does provide them for RedHat/Intel). So... here's my question: Are there pre-compiled binaries available for PostGIS/PostgreSQL for RedHat/Itanium II. The whole point of using Itanium II servers, as I understand it, is to do more with less--to get more bang for one's computational buck. Is Itanium II really such a rare/boutique platform as ESRI seems to believe it to be by not supporting it fully? Spatially, Dana P.S. What's the "best" Enterpise class Linux for PostGIS/PostgreSQL? I hear Centos and WhiteHat are RedHat Enterprise without the logos. What Enterprise Linux do people here use for PostGIS/PostgreSQL (for personal work where there is little to no funding)? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users