Close

Close
Special Announcement
Newsletter Sign Up
Calendar
Back February '10 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
Syndicate This Blog
Top Referers
georezo.net (166)
planetgs.com (63)
www.thegisforum.com (43)
www.bloglines.com (25)
bit.ly (23)
Our Points
Tuesday, June 9. 2009

Podcast: Spatial Databases: A Commodity?

Open Source Oracle Geospatial Business

This week's question: Is the spatial database a commodity? With all the big database players storing and querying spatial data and several open source offerings in the market, is spatial no longer special when in comes to the database world? Is it time to "stop getting excited" about the addition of spatial support and simply use the technology?


Subscribe to Podcast RSS

Listen Now (to download, right click on the link at left and choose "save target as")

Read the show notes

Missed any podcasts? Want to subscribe via iTunes, Yahoo, etc? Here's the index.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, Microsoft, Oracle, Databases, Directions on the News Podcast, Geospatial Business at 01:00 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

Spatial databases COULD be a commodity if ESRI weren't walking around with a wet blanket to drop over any activity that ventures away from their platform.

ESRI's sufficient market share and a broad 'intel network' of geospatial experts. When an end-user of any size or importance begins thinking about geospatial investments, ESRI knows...and steps into the mix.

Soon as that camel is in the tent, you can say goodbye to a non-ESRI spatial database as the foundation.

ESRI's most cherished leverage is control over the core data format - and SQL/ORACLE/POSTGres, etc., enable geospatial apps that don't need ESRI.

- result: Spatial DB versions have been around for a while. If they were truly successful in penetrating the market, you'd see Oracle Spatial under every City and Utility GIS in the market.
#1 Archie Belaney on 2009-06-09 09:27 (Reply)

Add Comment

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
Standard emoticons like :-) and ;-) are converted to images.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA
    
  
 
Advertisers
Polls
What's your feeling about commercial organizations that participate in kind or cash support to help in disasters and publicize those efforts?
No issues; it's good for the planet and good business.
It's ok, but does make me wonder about their motives.
It's pure marketing, and bothers me.
Have no strong feeling.

Archives
Comments
Adena Schutzberg about South Dakota Watershed Data Made Available in Google Earth
February 9
Thanks - those two issue have been [...]


jerry sullivan about South Dakota Watershed Data Made Available in Google Earth
February 9
"WaStershed"

also, the hotlink to [...]


Adena Schutzberg about South Dakota Watershed Data Made Available in Google Earth
February 9
Kelly,

Sorry - just bad editing on my [...]


Kevin about Update: NAVTEQ Shutting Down Phone Map App Nav4All that Uses NAVTEQ Data
February 9
Agreed - if a user of OSM data alters, [...]


Kelly McDermott about South Dakota Watershed Data Made Available in Google Earth
February 9
Adena,

North Dakota, South Dakota - [...]


Scott about Update: NAVTEQ Shutting Down Phone Map App Nav4All that Uses NAVTEQ Data
February 9
Besides that OSM data is not "perfect or [...]


Chris about South Dakota Watershed Data Made Available in Google Earth
February 9
Not to be a buzz kill for South Dakota, [...]


Amazon Recommendations