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[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Steve, and thanks for the introduction Mike,

As mentioned, it would be great to see Oracle representation at the 
international FOSS4G conference. http://2009.foss4g.org

This conference attracts an international audience of people interested 
in Geospatial Open Technologies: Open Standards, Open Source, Open Data, 
Open Architectures, Spatial Data Infrastructures. It is particularly 
interesting to Government agencies who have been given directions to 
share their Public Sector Information and want to learn how to do this.

Hence, the interest in FOSS4G activities, like the Web Map Service 
comparison shootout Mike is involved in, and an Open Geospatial 
Consotium led Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest, which is 
showcasing interoperability between numerous applications using OGC 
standards within a climate change scenario.

As governments are extensive users of Oracle technologies, I suspect 
Oracle will consider FOSS4G a valuable opportunity for sponsorship.

Steve, is this something you can help facilitate?

Smith, Michael ERDC-USACE-NH wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   

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.

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