Look at some of the features of 4.1.1
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Spatial_extensions_in_MySQL.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Phillipson [mailto:dougp@stripped]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 1:41 PM
> To: mysql@stripped
> Subject: ESRI GIS products support lacking in MySQL???
>
> I hope this isn't an inappropriate list for this...
>
> I have been trying to get ESRI (ww.esri.com) to consider supporting
> MySQL as a backend Database. They informed me that MySQL doesn't have
> all the features required to support ESRI's products. Since the
> alternatives are Oracle and SQL Server, and Oracle is prohibitively
> expensive, I'm wondering if your MySQL AB has considered contacting ESRI
> to see what their requirements are. ESRI is the standard for GIS
> systems. It would seem to me that if your database could be used by
> ESRI that you might get tens of thousands of new customers all over the
> world.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone else has probed exactly what is missing in MySQL
> that makes it inappropriate for use by ESRI.
>
> Regards
>
> Doug P
>
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