Directions Magazine
| (Nov 13, 2002) |
ESpatial: Demonstrating two new products targeted at the agricultural market. I Smart Server and I Smart Development Studio. The new product are going to be $50,000 per CPU and free updating with the new releases. Their new releases correspond with Oracle’s latest release schedule for 9i and 10i.
ESRI: They are going to distribute a new product by the end of this year; it is called Tracking Analyst, which is the extension to the existing product - ArcMap. The new product is going to cost $2,500 to $5,000 per license. This new product could display real-time data such as tracking hurricanes. The solution will be integrated with the ability to display the floor plan for a building, which can be used for evacuation purposes. Their target audience includes local police department and government. ESRI claims that about 50 percent of ESRI's users use a DBMS such as Oracle.
Hitachi Global Services: Not demonstrating anything unique except to show their integration with an Oracle database.
Intergraph. A big supporter of OracleSpatial was showing two new products that are available. They mentioned that GeoMedia version 5.1 will be distributed in Jan and 6.0 will be distributed next year. Also being demonstrated were IntelliWhere’s solutions running on a Palm as well as a wireless mobile phone.
MapInfo: Demonstrating MapInfo
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