Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] relevance of Sun's acquisition of MySQL, and promoting support for open source

2008-01-16 Thread Frank Warmerdam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The SPD There's been a lot of setup work done on a directory of organisations offering support for OSGeo software projects. Just another 20% would make it actually useful. http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile is an interesting "advanced" interface but no-one's going to us

[OSGeo-Discuss] relevance of Sun's acquisition of MySQL, and promoting support for open source

2008-01-16 Thread jo
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/ - Sun says, "we're putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP." What are the implications of this for OSGeo and friends? Maybe some of Sun's resources will go into bringing MySQL spatial support up to scratch, at last, "spatially enable" a million web apps. Per