Close

Close
Special Announcement
Newsletter Sign Up
Calendar
Back September '09 Forward
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
  1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30        
Syndicate This Blog
Top Referers
manomano.livejournal.com (113)
www.lizardtech.com (79)
www.thegisforum.com (67)
planetgs.com (63)
myteams.dot.ga.gov (31)
Our Points
(Page 1 of 1, totalling 1 entries)
Monday, September 14. 2009

NZ's Second Biggest Power Company Removes Oracle, Goes SQL Server

Open Source Oracle

New Zealand’s Powerco pretty much removed its Oracle instances in favor of Microsoft’s SQL Server. There were also changes in hardware, virtualization and a drop in the number of Citrix servers. The GIS moves over this week; hopefully after a user presentation at Tech Ed, we'll learn more about how the company was using Oracle and how it'll be using SQL Server for spatial data (or not). The company uses Televent Miner and Miner apps built on ESRI tech (source). The money saved: $390,000 a year.

Open source was not considered as the goal was to standardize to one system from a mixed Oracle/SQL Server solution.

- Computerworld NZ

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, Microsoft, Oracle at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share
(Page 1 of 1, totalling 1 entries)
Advertisers
Polls
What do you think of this blog's "tidbits" articles that provide roundups of stories on a theme?
Love them, read them all.
Always read the ones in my area(s) of interest.
I skip them.
Didn't realize you did that!

Archives
Comments
Archie Belaney about Illinois Grant Tracker Uses ESRI for Data Management and Google Maps for Visualization
March 20
Google Maps with a simple tabular [...]


Archie Belaney about Kundra: Geospatial One-Stop One of Four Projects of Interest to OMB
March 19
Exactly. striking the balance is the [...]


reidi about "Opensource GIS saves companies thousands"
March 19
The author implies that MapServer and [...]


Adena Schutzberg about Slightly Off Topic: Link Bait Hitting Geo: Why?
March 19
I heard about that on On the Media. [...]


atanas entchev about Slightly Off Topic: Link Bait Hitting Geo: Why?
March 19
TIME magazine ran a story that might [...]


marshall, who despises writing metadata but does it anyway about Kundra: Geospatial One-Stop One of Four Projects of Interest to OMB
March 19
Making fed agencies write metadata is no [...]


Archie Belaney about "Opensource GIS saves companies thousands"
March 18
Open Source by itself doesn't save [...]


Amazon Recommendations