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Lance McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/28/99 02:46:43 PM
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Subject: ESRI Passes OpenGIS Conformance Test
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Lance McKee
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PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For information about this release, contact:
Lance McKee Vice President, Corporate Communications
The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC), Wayland, MA
tel: +1-508-655-5858 fax: +1-508-655-2237
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ESRI PASSES FIRST OPENGIS CONFORMANCE TEST
Wayland, MA, USA, May 10, 1999: The OpenGIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC)
announced today that ESRI is the first GIS company to pass conformance
tests for OGC's OpenGIS Simple Features Specification.
The tests prove whether or not a geospatial information system software
product conforms to the OpenGIS Implementation Specifications that OGC has
created through its industry consensus process. (See
http://www.opengis.org/testing for details of the conformance tests.)
ESRI tested its SDE product, which provides a spatial database server
capability with Oracle, Informix, and IBM DB2. SDE is able to serve
"simple features," or basic vector data, to any client with an interface
that conforms to the OpenGIS Simple Features for SQL Specification.
The availability of OpenGIS Specification conformant server products
that provide access to data via client queries on attributes and geometry
sets the stage for achieving full geospatial interoperability across the
industry.
As client tools with OpenGIS Specification conformant interfaces become
available from other vendors, geospatial interoperability between servers
and clients and across applications will be possible.
Kurt Buehler, OGC's Chief Operations Officer and Chair of the OGC Technical
Committee, said, "This conformance test is an important milestone for the
industry, and ESRI is to be congratulated for its hard work and commitment
to the OpenGIS consensus process. As other software vendors implement
OpenGIS Specification conformant interfaces in their products, users will
begin to reap the benefits of open systems geoprocessing. Users can help by
reminding vendors that OpenGIS interoperability interfaces are a high
priority."
Dr David Maguire, ESRI Director of Products, said, "OGC's recognition of
ESRI's long term commitment to making open software that really works for
users is gratifying and another step on the interoperablity road for our
users. ESRI
demonstrated that multiple different clients can now interoperate with
multiple different databases, exploiting the best capabilities of each."
-- end --
David Schell
President
Open GIS Consortium, Inc.
35 Main Street, Suite 5
Wayland, MA 01778
USA
Tel: +1 508 655 5858
Fax: +1 508 655 2237
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.opengis.org
This message is being posted to several lists. We apologize for
cross-postings.
Lance McKee
---------------------------------------------
PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For information about this release, contact:
Lance McKee Vice President, Corporate Communications
The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC), Wayland, MA
tel: +1-508-655-5858 fax: +1-508-655-2237
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ESRI PASSES FIRST OPENGIS CONFORMANCE TEST
Wayland, MA, USA, May 10, 1999: The OpenGIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC)
announced today that ESRI is the first GIS company to pass conformance
tests for OGC's OpenGIS Simple Features Specification.
The tests prove whether or not a geospatial information system software
product conforms to the OpenGIS Implementation Specifications that OGC has
created through its industry consensus process. (See
http://www.opengis.org/testing for details of the conformance tests.)
ESRI tested its SDE product, which provides a spatial database server
capability with Oracle, Informix, and IBM DB2. SDE is able to serve
"simple features," or basic vector data, to any client with an interface
that conforms to the OpenGIS Simple Features for SQL Specification.
The availability of OpenGIS Specification conformant server products
that provide access to data via client queries on attributes and geometry
sets the stage for achieving full geospatial interoperability across the
industry.
As client tools with OpenGIS Specification conformant interfaces become
available from other vendors, geospatial interoperability between servers
and clients and across applications will be possible.
Kurt Buehler, OGC's Chief Operations Officer and Chair of the OGC Technical
Committee, said, "This conformance test is an important milestone for the
industry, and ESRI is to be congratulated for its hard work and commitment
to the OpenGIS consensus process. As other software vendors implement
OpenGIS Specification conformant interfaces in their products, users will
begin to reap the benefits of open systems geoprocessing. Users can help by
reminding vendors that OpenGIS interoperability interfaces are a high
priority."
Dr David Maguire, ESRI Director of Products, said, "OGC's recognition of
ESRI's long term commitment to making open software that really works for
users is gratifying and another step on the interoperablity road for our
users. ESRI
demonstrated that multiple different clients can now interoperate with
multiple different databases, exploiting the best capabilities of each."
-- end --
David Schell
President
Open GIS Consortium, Inc.
35 Main Street, Suite 5
Wayland, MA 01778
USA
Tel: +1 508 655 5858
Fax: +1 508 655 2237
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.opengis.org
