While I was in Brazil I had the opportunity to meet with Carlos Diniz and Fabio Gomes from DigiCADD. 
DigiCADD has been working with a large telephone company in Brazil, who have been using AutoCAD for ten years, have a large number of DWG files, and who want to make this large volume of data available to a wide audience. To do this they plan to improve the manageability of their data, streamline data maintenance, and make their data available to their field staff by making this data accessible in real-time using a spatially-enabled relational database management system (RDBMS). Using Autodesk Map, DigiCADD has loaded DWG files into Oracle Locator 9.2 and at this point have about 0.7M polygonal, 10M linear, and 21M point objects (total of about 32M spatial objects) stored in Oracle Locator.
I saw DigiCADD’s MapGuide application for publishng this data to about 1000 web users and was impressed both with what DigiCADD has built and the scalability that a spatially-enabled RDBMS like Oracle Locator together with MapGuide provides. DigiCADD intends to completely eliminate the need for maintaining and managing DWG files by providing real-time update capability for all spatial data in Oracle Locator using Autodesk Map3D and MapGuide Enterprise. They also plan to add imagery support, integrate their spatial data with other enterprise systems, and provide access to the data to field staff using mobile devices.
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