If you think about creating database powered Geospatial solutions, the following presentation from Mark Ashworth (IBM Informix Extensibility Architect) might be interesting for you:

• Geospatial for Defense and Border Security

Hildebrand, an energy consulting company, has developed an innovative new software solution that allows the exact tracking of energy consumption at homes. The solution is based on Informix Dynamic Server and exploits the Informix Timeseries DataBlade technology. The results are really impressing.

Excerpt:

"IBM software delivered spectacular results. In the first proof-of-concept 

Webcast: Geographic Mashups

• Date: Wednesday, Feb 27th, 2008
• Time: 1.5 hours -- 8 AM PST, 10 AM Central, 11 AM Eeastern, 4 PM London, 5 PM Paris, 5 PM Berlin
• Title: Geographic mashups: Bringing a spatial dimension to your Web applications
• Speaker 1: Robert Uleman, Consulting IT Specialist, IBM
• Speaker 2: Alan Caldera, Senior Software Engineer, IBM

Do your enterprise applications include the next level of information for business 

A special offer from the IIUG for all members:

Free Instructor Led Online Training covering IDS Text Datablade and Node Datablade:

• Details
  • Date: February 19, 2008
  • Instructor: Mike Lowe
  • Duration: 1.5h
  • Beginning: 11:00am Eastern, 04:00pm London, 05:pm Paris/Berlin