%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2009 %T Geospatial Primer: in Search of the Next "Killer App" %A Andrew Ross %X Soon after Codd wrote his paper on relational algebra in 1970, relational databases significantly changed the way people manage data. Today, relational databases are the workhorses of enterprise data storage. Similarly, imagine a world without email or the Internet. What will the next "killer app" or "killer service" look like? What kinds of attributes and features will it provide? In this article, we provide a primer on geospatial technology. We then explain possible reasons for growth in the geospatial industry, examine Ingres' geospatial project, and relate the material to learnings about open source as a protocol for business. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 02/2009 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/237 %N February 2009 %9 Articles %1 Ingres Andrew Ross is a Director within the Engineering team at Ingres. He leads a team of software engineers to work on Ingres community projects including Geospatial and CAFE. Prior to joining Ingres, Andrew was an Architect and software developer at Nortel. Andrew has been developing and using open source for over a decade and teaching University classes using open source since 2004. He is a charter member of The Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Andrew is Founder and President of the Free and Open Source Software Learning Centre, a non-profit dedicated to improving people's lives through skills development and outreach using open source.