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on Wednesday February 22, @10:30AM
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All Points Blog links to two coverages of MapInfo shareholder's meeting last week. From BusinessReview: "MapInfo Corp. had the best first quarter in its 20-year-history, closed 2005 with its highest revenue ever and predicts more to come in fiscal year 2006. [...] Revenue came not just from software, but also the data and services. "We are no longer just a software company," said Mark Cattini, MapInfo's president and CEO."
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Pitney Bowes to Acquire MapInfo for for $408 million 2 comments
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All Points Blog offers two entries on the purchase of MapInfo by Pitney Bowes. From the first one: "There'd been speculation for some time that Oracle or Intergraph or Microsoft might acquire the company, but I confess I never hear a rumor about Pitney Bowes. that goes to show, perhaps that I think of MapInfo as a GIS company and in fact it's more a "location intelligence" company to use its favorite term, or a "business to business" company to use my term.
Pitney Bowes is based in Stamford, Ct. (I think we had a NEARC meeting there once) and is described variously as the "the largest maker of mail-handling machines" and a "mail and document management services" company. So, it's basically another B2B company in what it calls the "mailstream" business. PBI (per its website) helps "companies manage their flow of mail, documents and packages.""
Technology: MapInfo 9.0 Coming this June
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Very Spatial shortly discuss the coming release of MapInfo 9.0. From the overview: "MapInfo Professional version 9.0 is the latest
release of the most powerful yet easy-to-use
desktop location intelligence solution available.
Direct access to new data including ESRI SDE
and GeoDatabase and the latest CAD formats lets
you use MapInfo Professional in conjunction with
colleagues and other applications without the
need to convert data. Rounding out this release
are capabilities to perform time- and event-based
analysis, features that improve your productivity
by streamlining commonly performed tasks, and
functionality to help you create better looking,
easy to understand maps."
Free Eval of MapInfo Professional 10
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All Points Blog brings notice that Mapinfo is doing free 30 day evals. Here is their summary : "MapInfo (aka Pitney Bowes Business Insights) has always been good about making evaluations available and the company is doing the same thing for v10. You can get a 30 day eval here. (Do read the license and privacy policy to which you must agree before requesting it.)"
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