As the days roll on from the original GE announcement to move to a 100% Oracle/Java solution, more details are slowly trickling in.
Directions Magazine has an article (Cutting Out the GIS Middleman: GE Energy Cements Relationship with Oracle to Build Enterprise Applications) that sheds some more light on GE's direction.
It seems to me that GE is trying to leap-frog over some of its GIS competitors who have used Oracle in the past but used it in a proprietary fashion.
[Updated: 11:46 am 15March07... I did not know that Oracle ships with landbase data. Have a look at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/spatial/pdf/navteq_faq.pdf]
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
All Points Blog podcast on GE/Smallworld/Java/Oracle
There is a podcast put out by the editors of www.allpointsblog.com that includes two stories from last week's GITA 30 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The second of the two stories is an editorial on GE's announcement to move to a Java/Oracle architecture.
The podcast page is here. If you click on "Listen Now" you will have to wait until about 60% through the podcast to get to the editorial on GE. The story does not tell me too much new, but it is interesting to get a point of view from people that are not necessarily directly involved in the Smallworld community.
The podcast page is here. If you click on "Listen Now" you will have to wait until about 60% through the podcast to get to the editorial on GE. The story does not tell me too much new, but it is interesting to get a point of view from people that are not necessarily directly involved in the Smallworld community.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
North American Daylight Saving Time
(Thank you to everyone that posted comments in response to the announcement that GE will be introducing a new version of Smallworld on Oracle/Java.)
I'm not sure about Mexico, but Canada and USA switched to Daylight Saving Time on March 11. If your Smallworld system times are off by an hour, please read "USA/Canada Daylight Saving Time is 4 weeks longer this year. Are you ready?"
You can tell if you have the appropriate Smallworld patch loaded by executing the following command at the Magik prompt.
If the date and time are different than you expect, it is likely that your patch has not been loaded.
An e-mail from the Smallworld helpdesk also mentioned that the most recent time zone patches include adjustments for Western Australia.
I'm not sure about Mexico, but Canada and USA switched to Daylight Saving Time on March 11. If your Smallworld system times are off by an hour, please read "USA/Canada Daylight Saving Time is 4 weeks longer this year. Are you ready?"
You can tell if you have the appropriate Smallworld patch loaded by executing the following command at the Magik prompt.
MagikSF> date_time_now()
$
If the date and time are different than you expect, it is likely that your patch has not been loaded.
An e-mail from the Smallworld helpdesk also mentioned that the most recent time zone patches include adjustments for Western Australia.
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