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OpenOSX Ships OpenOSX GrassPro(TM)Product

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--August 23rd, 2006

OpenOSX today began shipping a major new version of their
"OpenOSX GrassPro(TM)" product, that for the first time is now both
PowerPC and Intel-native. In addition, they have also published their
freely available "OpenOSX Grass" standalone application, which is
also now available natively for both Intel and PowerPC Macintoshes
for the first time.

The PowerPC and Intel native "OpenOSX GrassPro" product
features: "OpenOSX Grass"; a standalone application based on the
powerful and proven open source "GRASS 6.1.0 Geographic Information
System" software, requiring a simple drag-and-drop installation;
"OpenOSX MapServer" which is a complete, standalone application based
on Apache 2.0.59, PHP 5.0.5 and MapServer 4.8.4, used for readily
publishing dynamic, navigatable maps with layers over the Internet
directly from dozens of popular geo-spatial file formats; "OpenOSX
GMT" featuring more than 60 tools for rich manipulation of geographic
and Cartesian datasets, including advanced filtering, trending,
gridding, projection and much more with EPS file format output;
PostGIS which enables spatial, geographic support for the included
PostgreSQL (similar to ESRI(R)'s Spatial Data Engine (SDE) and Oracle
(R)'s Spatial Extension); along with an exhaustive set of additional
software and tools included to extend the power of GRASS GIS; all
backed with documentation, tutorials, sample-data and limited
installation support.

The latest release of GRASS GIS 6.1.0 includes hundreds
of improvements over the last stable version, 6.0.1, including a
feature to create GRASS "Locations" automatically from existing geo-
spatial datasets, which was considered a major obstacle for many
would-be GRASS adopters. GRASS 6 features a "GIS Display Manager"
complete with layers, a vector engine capable of handling 2D and 3D
vector data, an NVIZ 3D interface allowing volume (voxel)
capabilities, 3D and 4D visualization, and the ability to integrate
database management systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, DBF and ODBC.
GRASS can import and export most popular geo-spatial file formats and
includes tools for photo-orthorectification, image classification, re-
projection, geostatistics, spatial data analysis and much more.

More information about "OpenOSX GrassPro", including
download links to OpenOSX's FREE Grass stand-alone application is
available at http://OpenOSX.com/grass/. The "OpenOSX GrassPro"
product is available immediately for us$60 delivered on CD-ROM, with
download-only delivery available for us$50. Upgrades from previous
versions of the "OpenOSX GrassPro" product are available for us$30
delivered on CD-ROM with electronic delivery available for us$20.
OpenOSX also has complementary, specially priced, "A GRASS GIS
Approach" 2nd edition hardcover book bundles and 6-month hassle-free
CD-subscriptions available.

OpenOSX is a company dedicated to serving, and expanding, the
Macintosh community. Founded on the premise that many computer users
are intimidated by the UNIX command-line, OpenOSX committed itself to
one mission- bringing popular Unix software to both the "Unix-
challenged" and the seasoned, Mac inclined system administrator in a
friendly, Mac environment.