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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Yep, IBM wants some extra dollars for each blade. If you want I can talk to our Oracle folks and see what exactly what setup is with them.<BR>
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Greg Williamson<BR>
Senior DBA<BR>
DigitalGlobe Inc.<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net on behalf of Obe, Regina<BR>
Sent: Fri 7/18/2008 12:24 PM<BR>
To: PostGIS Users Discussion<BR>
Subject: RE: [postgis-users] Compare SQL Server 2008 Spatial, PostGIS,MySQLfunctionality<BR>
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Does IBM package charge additional for their geodetic support. Sounds<BR>
like its another engine you purchase separately.<BR>
<BR>
<A HREF="http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/spatial/">http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/spatial/</A><BR>
<BR>
I assume its integrated in Oracle if you get Oracle Spatial (which<BR>
presumes you are running Oracle Enterprise) since I don't see any<BR>
mention of it being separate aside from its only existed since Oracle<BR>
9i. I presume they don't include it in their Oracle Locator offering.<BR>
Is that correct?<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net<BR>
[<A HREF="mailto:postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net">mailto:postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net</A>] On Behalf Of<BR>
Martin Davis<BR>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 12:05 PM<BR>
To: PostGIS Users Discussion<BR>
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Compare SQL Server 2008 Spatial, PostGIS,<BR>
MySQLfunctionality<BR>
<BR>
Another interesting evaluation axis might be support for true geodetic<BR>
(geographic) data. I believe that only SQLServer has this (along with<BR>
<BR>
Oracle and IBM,of course)<BR>
<BR>
Martin<BR>
<BR>
Paragon wrote:<BR>
> As part of our due diligence work, we are formulating a comparison of<BR>
the<BR>
> spatial functionality offered by SQL Server 2008 Spatial, PostGIS and<BR>
MySQL.<BR>
> Its currently in draft, but we hope to release within the next week.<BR>
><BR>
> We would appreciate if people could take a quick look at it and let us<BR>
know<BR>
> if you see any gross errors or important things we left out. Most of<BR>
this<BR>
> information we curled from reading the help docs of each product and<BR>
from<BR>
> our general familiarity with the databases and GIS products out there.<BR>
We<BR>
> tried to be as fair as possible.<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
><BR>
<A HREF="http://www.bostongis.com/PrinterFriendly.aspx?content_name=sqlserver2008">http://www.bostongis.com/PrinterFriendly.aspx?content_name=sqlserver2008</A><BR>
_pos<BR>
> tgis_mysql_compare<BR>
><BR>
> Thanks,<BR>
> Regina and Leo<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
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Refractions Research, Inc.<BR>
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