Featured Article By Adena Schutzberg
In recent weeks the term "appliance," as it relates to geospatial solutions, has popped up quite a bit. Now is a good time to look at the phenomenon. Before looking at specific geographic appliances, let's start with the term "appliance" as applied to information technology in general. If your mind wanders to a classic toaster, you are not far off. What's the great thing about a toaster? You plug it in and it makes toast. It performs a specific task, and you have just a few options to configure. Computer appliances, per Wikipedia, are "software devices that provide a narrow range of functions that are generally run on a hardware platform of their own."
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GIS Weekly Magazine
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Look for the next issue of GIS Weekly Magazine on May 28, 2012.
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