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To: Uncompaghre who wrote (139)	3/31/1997 2:09:00 PM
From: Mike Heimbuch	of 731

Good Morning all Have spent quite a bit of time on the phone this morning - looking for Sedona Geo connections. The only real success I had was with a fellow named Kurt Buehler - who is one of the directors of the Open GIS consortium. He is not up to speed on the technical aspects of Sedona - but he knows their engineers and GGray - and is impressed with them. He felt that most data base developers are heading in the object-oriented direction -terminologies get similar - but that data base development is expensive and these companies would likely expand their current technology - as opposed to starting from scratch. Therefore he felt it was most! unlikely that Oracle which is a huge company - found something compelling in Sedona Geo to redo their new products around. Sedona Geo is almost exclusively a geo-spatial oriented company. He felt that their new management was a great thing - but he could not speculate on their commercial success - nor did he know of their technical contribution to GIS standards. He was quite optimistic that some standards would be finalized in late summer - with possible products out shortly thereafter - He also spoke of the NIMA project - which in short is the big conglomeration of D of D, Central Mapping - and a couple others I didn't get -and their efforts to get industry to respond to RFP on product specs - which will allow them access to markets never tapped by commercial interests. Kurt was formerly military - and detailed the change of software development efforts out of the hands of gov. into private commercial domain. He said this is a very big plum for industry - and that it is a spiral request - as is the GIS -meaning they will be doing it again and again. He verified and reiterated that Sedona is a significant player in both the NIMA-IPT and Open GIS consortium, that both of these projects are real and running, and that Sedona Geo is the genuine article. Kurt is a tech guy running things - whose job partly is to convince industry interests that their joint cooperation will bring great benefits and stability. Just going over cger.uiowa.edu makes me again realize how big mapping is gonna be - Bearing in mind that Sedona's two biggest assets (IN MY UNDERSTANDING) - will be their 1.mapping data inventory and 2.geo-spatial conversion/manipulation software - which can operate within existing programs (open architecture, open client interoperability) - should save money (no redoing of entire systems) - save time (macro commands on batch conversions from raster to vector as well as other functions) Thinking back to Jerry's comment about the Ford VP who said - forget the saving time and money line - just tell me what it does. In the words of George Gray - "When I show people our technology - they get animated - interested - even excited at times - and say 'gee - thats really neat'" I guess thats what we hope the customers will all be saying come fall. Feeling a bit more educated - Hoping for a good summer of news - and of course in Alaska - just hoping the snow will melt by June. Mike up North

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