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Wednesday, May 28. 2008

Oxford Archeology Goes Open Source

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Since there are rarely open source "win" press releases, its valuable to note when organizations choose such solutions.

Per Search Enterprise Linux:
...it's only natural that the cost-conscious, nonprofit $24 million company would turn to open source software to run the heart of its operations, from capturing and storing archaeological data to running routine business functions -- even its telephone system.

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Chief Information Officer Chris Puttick. "And open source is the best long-term cost-saver … and gives us the ultimate flexibility to adapt without restriction."
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[The CIO begain] starting with the servers, most of which now run on Ubuntu (some 6.06 Long Term Support [LTS] and others on 8.04 LTS), and the free version of VMware, then trying the OpenOffice desktop application and the PostgreSQL open source database, which has an add-on for a geographic information system (GIS).
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Additional changes are still under way, including migration to open source GIS packages, including gvSIG, QGIS and/or GRASS,...

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source at 06:38 | Comments (0)

Podcast: (Geo)technology 2008: Findability, Accessibility, Portability

ESRI Open Source Yahoo Conferences LBS Social Networking


This week Adena Schutzberg offers a condensed verison of the presentation she gave last week at the NYS Geospatial Summit, in Skenateles, NY. It focuses on the challenges of finding, accessing and moving Web-based content both geospatial and otherwise, and highlights some technologies and tools addressing those challenges. She also looks into the future and predicts what she expects to see in these areas in the coming months and years.



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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, ESRI, Open Source, Yahoo, Conferences, LBS, Standards, Directions on the News Podcast, Social Networking at 01:00 | Comments (0)

Tuesday, May 20. 2008

Podcast: ESRI and Google Offer New Solutions for Finding and Using Geospatial Data

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At last week's Where 2.0 held in Burlingame, California, Google's John Hanke and ESRI's Jack Dangermond shared the stage to describe their updated vision for making ESRI's user's geodata and services more usable across the Web. Our editors describe the key points in this technological and business handshake and explore its implications.

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, ESRI, Open Source, Conferences, Directions on the News Podcast at 13:00 | Comments (0)

Tuesday, May 13. 2008

Podcast: Four Technologies That May Soon Impact Geospatial...Are You Ready?

Open Source RFID Geospatial Business Social Networking
The editors look outward to find technologies that will impact how geospatial products and practices will change in the next 12 to 24 months. Some of the suggested technologies are already appearing in cutting edge products, others are not yet implemented in geospatial solutions, but we expect to see them soon.

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, RFID, Microsoft, Oracle, Databases, Sensors, Directions on the News Podcast, Local Search, Wi-Fi, GNSS, IBM, Geospatial Business, Social Networking at 01:00 | Comments (0)
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