Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] "Free"

2007-03-03 Thread Zachary L. Stauber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I agree with Perry. There are a lot of free/lite/express versions of GIS software that are perfectly usable for small businesses or the non-profit "neo-cartographer" such as Tatuk Viewer, ArcExplorer, OracleXE, and GoogleEarth. Because they are usefu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] "Free"

2007-03-03 Thread Chip Mefford
This is just one voice mumbling in the crowd. But, this one voice views Oracle's so-called "free" database Express Edition to be merely a 'loss leader' distributed by Oracle with a few goals in mind. One goal that this software achives, is that it allows folks who are well versed in oracle databa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AJAX Trust and security

2007-03-03 Thread Cameron Shorter
Arnulf, You mention in this email thread that you are considering addressing security. We want to provide a secure mechanism for AJAX clients to access Web Services and I'm interested to know if you have already, or are intending to address this issue. We have written the problem statement here

[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Italian Association for Geographic Free/Open-Source Software

2007-03-03 Thread Markus Neteler
Como, 26 February 2007 The "Associazione Italiana per l'Informazione Geografica Libera / GFOSS.IT" (Italian Association for Geographic Free/Open-Source Software) has been founded in Palermo, Italy. GFOSS.IT has been founded by specialists with a consolidated international experience in the fie

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New Project.

2007-03-03 Thread Arnulf Christl
Bob Basques wrote: All, The MOOSE project has been working with essentially the same philosophy, with regards to normalizing the code into distinct Chunks, which make the mixing and matching very easy. Integrating services into it are very easy for example. I think our coding style is ve