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Wednesday, June 3. 2009
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Keeping up with Microsoft SQL Server Spatial
Last year at our Location Intelligence Conference, many attendees were treated to one of the first in depth looks at Microsoft SQL Spatial. And since that time, with all of the ruckus over Bing and Bing Maps for the Enterprise, aka Virtual Earth (there is a ruckus over Bing, right?), it's easy to lose sight of the more "meaty" technology of SQL Server Spatial, or SSS for short. At today's PBBI Insights conference in Orlando, Ed Katibah, Microsoft's Spatial Program Manager, revealed a few new tidbits. I'll give you a few morsels to chew on below but I won't do justice to some of the details that Ed has provided on his blog, SpatialEd.
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OK...Now, Bing Maps are Part of Bing.com
Microsoft wants you to know...
Bing Maps are now part of Bing.com...It took them a few days since Bing was launched but now the maps are up.
And MSFT wants you to be cognizant of the bigger change...
As you are probably aware the brand change impacted the Virtual Earth platform and Live Search Maps, with Live Search Maps becoming Bing Maps and the Virtual Earth platform becoming Bing Maps for Enterprise. For more information, I encourage you to join the Bing community located at, http://www.bing.com/community. The new community site also includes a new Bing Maps blog. You can also follow Bing on Twitter, via @bing.
EPA Holds Reverse Auction for Bing Maps for Enterprise (Virtual Earth) Contractor
FCW reports the announcement was made public on a Fed Biz Opps site.
The reverse auction to find a contractor to develop the app/provide the license for two years is already underway; bids close June 11.





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