Podcast: MISO and ESRI: Current Status and the Future

By Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg
July 22, 2008

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"MISO" stands for Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle, the big enterprise players in the market today. All have a toe or more in GIS, but all also have a tie to ESRI. What's the state of those relationships and what new players also want and need to hook up with the big E? Our editors explore these questions and toss in a few other letters, G, A and B into the alphabet soup.

Show notes:

New Jersey Highlands
Freeance Blackberry app
SAP Takes Another Hard Look at the GIS Market (Directions Magazine)
Is IBM the Next Major GIS Player? (All Points Blog)
Vancouver Island city first to be 3-D mapped by Google (Canada.com)
BC first in Canada to give Google its maps (Vancouver Sun)

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