Carbon Project Announces GeoLeaders as US Distributor.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 2004 The Carbon Tools, an effort producing Windows-based toolkits that leverage OpenGIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC OGC Office of Government Commerce (UK government) OGC Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. OGC Office of the General Counsel OGC Open GIS Consortium, Inc. ) specifications, today announced it is expanding its market development efforts through a distribution agreement with GeoLeaders. GeoLeaders will exclusively distribute Carbon Tools in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. to third party service providers, value-added resellers and enterprise customers in the government. "The vision of Carbon Tools is to make OGC web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. accessible to all Windows developers," said Nuke Goldstein, Lead Software Engineer for the Carbon Tools. "The addition of GeoLeaders as a distribution partner greatly enhances the capacity of developers, integrators and enterprise customers to leverage Carbon Tools." "GeoLeaders is pleased to expand its Partner Network with the announcement of our distributorship for Carbon Tools. This relationship will allow thousands of Windows developers to use Microsoft's COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. and .NET technologies to rapidly build enterprise geospatial applications which leverage the strengths of other products available through the GeoLeaders Partner Network," said Jeff Harrison Jeff Harrison is an American poet whose poems Postmortem Series and Accuracy are apparently randomly generated, with the help of Markov chains. The poems are considered a form of aleatoric poetry. External links
About the Carbon Project The mission of Carbon Tools is to make OGC standards-based services accessible to Windows developers. Carbon Tools save developers the long and costly process of learning, adapting and developing OGC compliant services by encapsulating data access, data parsing See parse. parsing - parser , and data processing functions into Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) and .NET libraries with an easy to use API. The controls built on the Microsoft .NET Framework within Carbon Tools enable developers and analysts to rapidly build applications using "drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. " type programmable components. More information on Carbon is available at http://carbon.nukegold.com. About GeoLeaders, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control GeoLeaders was founded on the principle that geospatial solutions built on open standards are not only viable, but offer a better long-term return on investment and meet requirements for interoperability more appropriately than proprietary, single vendor solutions. Through its Partner Network, GeoLeaders unites providers of OGC standards-based technology products with professional services companies to deliver on customer requirements with standards-based technology. Software solutions distributed through GeoLeaders meet guidelines established in the United States Federal Geographic Data Committee's geospatial interoperability reference model, and other standards for geospatial interoperability. For information on GeoLeaders or to join the GeoLeaders Partner Network visit www.geoleaders.com. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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