Victoria, British Columbia -- Companies from around the world have joined forces to fund performance improvements to the PostgreSQL open source database. By pooling resources, the contributing companies have saved money while gaining important new database features for their businesses. Now, Refractions Research is pleased to report the completion of this collaborative effort to bring important concurrency improvements to the PostgreSQL GiST indexing subsystem.
Members of the PostGIS community were quick to respond. In total $8000 were raised to support the enhancements, from corporate donors
Refractions,
Cadcorp,
GlobeXplorer,
Mobile Meridian,
WebBased,
Intevation,
RealGo,
Mercator GeoSystems
and from individuals.
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By Jon Van
Published March 26, 2005
Chicago Tribune
Nearly every day, cell phone companies dispatch agents to drive city streets, measuring the strength of wireless phone signals.
This can provide useful information, but it is "equivalent to browsing the Internet without a search engine," said John Thakkar, engineering director for Mobile Meridian LLC, a Chicago start-up that offers radio frequency engineering expertise and software.
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