From jan at intevation.de Thu Nov 17 11:44:23 2005 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:44:23 +0100 Subject: [Intevation News] Kolab wins "Best Groupware Server" Award Message-ID: <20051117104423.GA18325@intevation.de> Frankfurt, 15th of November 2005 Kolab wins "Best Groupware Server" Award Kolab has been given the Linux New Media Award 2005 in the category 'Best Groupware Server'. The jury chose Kolab on top of contenders like Openexchange, OpenGroupware, GroupWise, eGroupWare, Scalix and Lotus Notes. This was revealed during a ceremony Tuesday evening at the LinuxWorld Expo 2005 in Frankfurt, Germany. Within three years of its existence, Kolab has grown to be a respected groupware that was also mentioned positively in both editions of Migration Guidelines for public administrations of the Germany Ministry of the Interior. "While the focus is on enterprise users, many others have meanwhile come to appreciate our approach!" says Bernhard Reiter from the Kolab-Konsortium. "It is attractive because Kolab offers a modern, scalable server with a choice of clients for numerious platforms including KDE Kontact and full Microsoft Outlook suport." The jury consisted of about 200 experts selected by Linux New Media, a publisher of 14 regular magazines about GNU/Linux. The Awards are given out yearly in changing categories to recognise most significant product, project or organisations. Bernhard Reiter was also nominated to be part of the jury for the award, but abstained from any voting. About Kolab: Kolab is a groupware and email solution that integrates proven Free Software components. In Fall 2002 the project started aiming at environments with both, GNU/Linux and Windows desktops. The design allows the integration with other products, e.g. directory and management services like dirActory, GOsa, or LAM. www.kolab.org About Kolab-Konsortium: The Kolab-Konsortium offers commercial maintenance, support, consulting and development for Kolab. Members are Intevation, erfrakon and Klar?lvdalens Datakonsult. Recently a partnership was announced to integrate Kolab into Univention's Coporate Server offering. www.kolab-konsortium.com Press Contact Jan-Oliver Wagner +49 541 33508 55 Jan-Oliver.Wagner at intevation.de From jan at intevation.de Tue Nov 29 01:14:10 2005 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:14:10 +0100 Subject: [Intevation News] Improved Support for Spatial Data in PostgreSQL 8.1 Message-ID: <20051129001410.GA13750@intevation.de> Improved Support for Spatial Data in PostgreSQL 8.1 Intensive read operations for geo-data are possible since a while with the "PostGIS" extension for PostgreSQL. For realtime and various web-applications, enterprise-level performance of write operations has become a much wanted feature. The GiST (indexing of complex, e.g. spatial, data) has been improved with PostgreSQL 8.1 to allow much faster writing. Intevation joined Refractions Research Inc, the main developers of PostGIS, and the companies Cadcorp, WebBased, GlobeXplorer and Mobile Meridian, to finance this PostgreSQL improvement. "Such a joined funding is always desireable," says Frank Koormann, responsible for database systems and PostGIS at Intevation. "Contributing to coordinated improvements is a service that Intevation offers to its customers as part of maintenance and support contracts. This continous development is independent of project objectives and ensures the longevity of products. It prevents that new features are build on top of an unsteady ground." References: http://www.postgresql.org http://postgis.refractions.net http://www.intevation.de/services/gis/postgis.de.html (page in German) From jan at intevation.de Fri Dec 16 15:42:36 2005 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:42:36 +0100 Subject: [Intevation News] DM Solutions Group and Intevation Team to Deliver MapServer Support in Europe Message-ID: <20051216144236.GA14597@intevation.de> DM Solutions Group and Intevation Team to Deliver MapServer Support in Europe Ottawa, Canada and Osnabr?ck, Germany, December 15, 2005 - DM Solutions Group Inc., a leader in the open source Web mapping community, and Intevation, a Germany based leading Free Software consulting company, today announced a joint plan to deliver professional MapServer support in Europe. Through a partnership agreement, any government and enterprise customer of Intevation will have the ability to automatically access DM Solutions Group for third-level support for MapServer and related software. Intevation will work directly with its customers to deliver security updates and general MapServer support, while DM Solutions Group will deliver upgrades and new releases of the technology. "The goal of our alliance with Intevation is to provide European MapServer customers with the tools and support they need to maximize the full potential of their MapServer applications," said David McIlhagga, DM Solutions Group president. "We are excited about working with Intevation and extending our MapServer support services to the European market." MapServer applications have been produced with large datasets and tough requirements for stability and availability. Prompt support, security maintenance and sustainable ongoing development are the key factors for customer success. The MapServer support from DM Solutions Group and Intevation combines the advantages of a Free Software product and enterprise-level services. "We chose to work with DM Solutions Group because of its clear leadership in MapServer development," said Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner, managing director of Intevation. "Our customers will benefit from having readily available access to MapServer support and updates." About DM Solutions Group Inc. DM Solutions Group Inc. is a leader in the open source Web mapping community and the primary corporate developer and maintainer of MapServer - the most widely used Web mapping rendering engine in the world. Building on its open source success, DM Solutions Group focuses on custom solution delivery, professional services, hosted online mapping services, and value-added products for a broad range of vertical markets. Founded in 1998, DM Solutions Group is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with a second office Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada. For more information visit www.dmsolutions.ca. About Intevation Intevation GmbH specialized in Free Software ("open source") and offers IT services for strategic consulting, project management & implementation, and geographic information systems (GIS). All activities are based on Free Software, active communication management, modern development techniques and usability design. The GIS business unit delivers customer solutions based on Free Software since Intevation was founded in 1999. The company has experience ranging from web mapping, customized applications, spatial databases up to geospatial infrastructures (GDI) and location based services (LBS). Intevation founded and maintains www.FreeGIS.org for evaluating and cataloguing Free Software GIS products. Contact: Jody Chantler DM Solutions Group Marketing & Communications 613.565.5056 ext. 13 jchantler at dmsolutions.ca Silke Reimer Intevation GmbH GIS Project Management +49 541 33508-32 silke.reimer at intevation.net