tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470995059384390571.post3103294501735394336..comments2023-12-14T05:22:45.323-07:00Comments on geothought: Thoughts on GE's next generation system based on Oracle - part 2Peter Battyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10803273537153805225noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470995059384390571.post-17243678616683528492007-07-05T13:02:00.000-06:002007-07-05T13:02:00.000-06:00Some very interesting comments from some very vari...Some very interesting comments from some very varied directions. And of course, Pete, a great article.<BR/><BR/>But this is the same problem that we've all faced for a long time, and that many of us have been involved in developing failed solutions to.<BR/><BR/>Oracle App Server is a fairly successful example, I guess, of this kind of move with many services provided by the Oracle suite of Nixtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17013327475896327247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470995059384390571.post-40689662763554750632007-06-29T11:58:00.000-06:002007-06-29T11:58:00.000-06:00Hey. Nice article Peter, really interesting stuff....Hey. Nice article Peter, really interesting stuff.<BR/><BR/>My interest and excitement was tinged with a frisson of trepidation though, at the description of the configurable GIS behaviour. I know there's a whole phalanx of very smart engineers at GE, who are no doubt immeasurably more cognisant of the following issues than myself. But, as is my wont, I'm not going to let that get in the way of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470995059384390571.post-82649308881665158182007-06-29T09:32:00.000-06:002007-06-29T09:32:00.000-06:00Interesting.I would think moving off a proprietary...Interesting.<BR/>I would think moving off a proprietary DB to Oracle Geospatial makes the customization potential broader, at least in the sense that there is a broader pool of talent and a wider scope of tools available. The concern as a utility would be how to migrate my previous custom tier into the new model.<BR/><BR/>Oracle geospatial is absorbing greater and greater functionality out of theAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470995059384390571.post-17690052000117622982007-06-29T06:58:00.000-06:002007-06-29T06:58:00.000-06:00I completely agree with you the success or fail ba...I completely agree with you the success or fail balance is around the "Off-the-shelf"/customizable dilemma. Having gone through that as part of the Intergraph community some years ago, when G/Tech arrived, now as part of the GE Smallworld community this seems to me somewhat like a "deja vu" …<BR/><BR/>SAP example should be looked carefully. No one have more power as a SW vendor to impose things Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470995059384390571.post-88411582027292077272007-06-28T18:33:00.000-06:002007-06-28T18:33:00.000-06:00This is really cool stuff. Am I right to assume t...This is really cool stuff. Am I right to assume that there is not any green fields market left at this point? That GE basically has to either upgrade existing clients or steal clients from some competing vendor (who competes with GE in the utility space?).<BR/><BR/>So, in some ways this is a new market, it's the market of customers who think that "classic" SmallWorld doesn't cut it anymore, and Paul Ramseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04056244920940087995noreply@blogger.com