In a move to make spatial data management a pervasive technology, Informix Corporation will embed spatial data management technology from ESRI, the leader in spatial analysis and geographic information system (GIS) mapping software, in its data and content management platform for e-business applications and services - Foundation.2000.
This announcement positions Informix as the first company to deliver open, systems-based, embedded, spatial data management on a single platform at no additional cost to its customers, and in doing so, to take the technology beyond the GIS community to penetrate virtually all market segments. Specifically, ESRI`s spatial data management technology will be embedded in the next major release of Informix Dynamic Server.2000, the core database server at the heart of Foundation.2000. Informix will make the ESRI technology available to organisations already running Informix Dynamic Server.2000, version 9.20 or later, and Foundation.2000, version 9.20 or later.
"By making spatial data types and functions freely available to these Informix users, the company hopes to pioneer a new generation of business and e-commerce opportunities, while it reinvigorates existing SQL-based applications with support for maps and spatial queries," says Julian Field, business unit manager, Informix SA.
"This opens the door for virtually all users to quickly and easily access the location-oriented information that is vital to business decisions and understanding," adds Field.
Informix`s forthcoming spatial data management solutions will comprise a number of technologies, including the ESRI spatial types and functions, a Java spatial data viewer, a data loader, and sample data sets. In addition to their immediate collaboration on Informix Dynamic Server.2000 and Foundation.2000, Informix and ESRI will collaborate on advancing spatial data management software according to the standards set by the OpenGIS and ISO/SQLMM Committees.
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