Tuesday, July 21. 2009

Oracle Hikes Oracle Spatial Price: Why? Success of Google Maps and ESRI

Of interest to the geospatial community: "the price of its spatial database pack for the management of location-based data from US$11,500 to US$17,500" between June 2008 and June 2009. Also up: database diagnostic packs, database tuning packs and database configuration management packs which went from US$3500 to US$5000.

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County GIS Bid Snapshot

I just find like this interesting. This county is in Missouri.

Armloads of book-sized bids and maps were opened during Thursday’s Newton County Commissioners meeting.

The GIS mapping and publication bids came in as follows: Marceline Mapping of Lathrop, Mo., $185,850 without web publication and $200,850 with Web publication; Great River Engineering, Springfield at $138,359; VillaGIS, Inc., Hollister, Mo., $80,600; Midland GIS Solutions $211,500; and The Sidwell Company, St. Charles, Ill. $167,505 and $2.25 a plot.

So, the range for something like the same set of tasks runs from $80K to $211K.

- Neosho Daily News

Podcast: First Half of 2009: State of the Industry

We are halfway through 2009. Directions Media editors have been to about a dozen user and specialty conferences in the U.S. and around the world, including ESRI's huge event last week. What themes are emerging? What can we tease out about the future? Our editors try to make sense of five key themes they've identified.


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