[Benchmarking] Press Release Ready for Review

Smith, Michael ERDC-USACE-NH michael.smith at usace.army.mil
Sat Oct 3 18:11:42 EDT 2009


Cameron,

I've been talking with Steve Serra (steven.serra at oracle.com) who is the
Senior Director of Engineering, Server Technologies, Oracle Spatial
Technologies (and a hell a of a nice guy).

Mike


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Michael Smith
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On 10/3/09 5:37 PM, "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Andrea, Mike,
> Who have you been talking with at Oracle? I can't seem any Oracle
> representatives registered for the FOSS4G conference, which is a shame
> because FOSS4G attracts a lot of delegates from the Government sector,
> which is one of Oracle's strong user bases.
> 
> (I got a phone call from a State department on Friday asking which
> technologies were being showcased in the WMS Shootout and whether it was
> worth leaving early of hanging around to the end. When he heard
> "GeoServer, ESRI,  and Oracle" he was quite excited as he is currently
> evaluating all these technologies.)
> 
> I wonder whether you could invite Oracle to sponsor FOSS4G, or take out
> an exhibition booth.
> Kirsty, our sponsorship organisor is CCed on this email.
> 
> Feel free to forward on this email if you wish.
> 
> 
> Andrea Aime wrote:
>> Smith, Michael ERDC-USACE-NH ha scritto:
>>> Jeff,
>>> 
>>> Maybe you could add Oracle Spatial as its own category in addition to
>>> SDE on
>>> Oracle
>>> 
>>> Eg
>>>  The data formats used will be shapefile, geotiff, ECW,
>>> PostgreSQL/PostGIS,
>>> Oracle Spatial 11gR1 and SDE on Oracle 11gR1.
>> 
>> Works for me. Oracle will be there at FOSS4G, and I know I asked some
>> times already, but do we have an official get go from them?
>> Just in case some Oracle representative there tries to grab and sue us
>> ;-)
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
>> 
> 



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