Mark Volz of Ergon Energy gave a presentation at AU that described how Ergon Energy has integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP), GIS, and design systems around a single point of truth and provides web-based access. […]
At AU I made time to attend an excellent presentation by Lou Ball, who has been in the utility business for over 20 years, on migrating data from CAD drawing files (typically DWGs) to GIS. […]
If you remember, Eric Raymond in the Cathedral and the Bazaar floated the "many eyeballs" theory that all bugs are shallow if you have a large enough community involved in finding solutions. I also remember […]
There are new reports that IBM is closer to acquiring Sun Microsystems. An interesting thought is that this acquisition would give IBM MySQL, by far the most popular open source RDBMS, to add to […]
