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Large organizations such as the national mapping agencies (e.g. OS, IGN, USGS), government services (e.g. Eurostat) and military services (e.g. US National Imagery and Mapping Agency), as well as large commercial enterprises, all need to manage increasingly large quantities of data that come from multiple producers.
While RDBMS-based central data administration is now realistically and reliably available in 1998, systems from Oracle, ESRI etc. do not yet provide long transaction support.
To avoid duplication of whole databases, multi-tiered long transactions would clearly be a useful capability for large and complex organizations.
This is a notion of what direction we could envision going with an ODBMS that supports long transactions for workgroup management. This is an important future customer requirement to support. It requires developing support for nested, distributed transactions in a scaleable ODBMS.
This is now feasible with today's OO-GIS technology, though not as a standard off-the-shelf product.. It requires long-transaction support.
