[postgis-users] ESRI to support PostGIS?

[Robert W. Burgholzer]

Wow,
How do we provide the feedback that they are looking for on this one?

r.b.

At 12:19 PM 8/2/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>I found it interesting in the ESRI International User
>Conference 2004 Preconference Survey Q & A, Question
>#11 under "Software Strategy" reads as follows:
>
>Q: What is ESRI's approach to open source software?
>
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>ESRI is not an open source vendor. Our engineering
>methodology and business model is built on a different
>paradigm. Nevertheless, we appreciate the spirit of
>the open source movement and recognize that a number
>of our users have chosen to employ various open source
>software technologies. ESRI actively uses and
>engineers its products to interoperate with a variety
>of open source technologies including Linux, Apache,
>and Python. We also publish elements of our code as
>open source such as the interoperability connectors as
>well as supporting ArcScripts on the Web for
>downloading by developers and users. In addition, we
>provide the Python source code for many of the ArcGIS
>9 geoprocessing tools. Especially interesting are the
>Spatial Statistics tools, which continue to evolve
>through contributions from our users.
>
>A strategic platform that ESRI intends to support for
>ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Engine is the combined open
>source technologies of Linux-Apache-Java.
>
>ESRI also closely monitors the open source DBMS
>environments such as PostgreSQL and MySQL. MySQL
>technologies are not currently ready for spatial data
>management. We will continue to evaluate it. However,
>we are actively evaluating support for PostgreSQL and
>would like your feedback.
>
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Robert Burgholzer
Environmental Engineer
MapTech Inc.
http://www.maptech-inc.com/