over at the location intelligence blog there is a very interesting post about Oracle 11g improvements in spatial support. Interesting enough in web services infrastructure they support WFS 1.1 nd CSW 2.0 in addition to the already supported WMS 1.1. This is great news for OGC standard based service implementations.
One other note over at the ebiquity blog has to do with OWL support in Oracle 11g. It will be possible to do inferencing for a subset of OWL on Oracle. this means you can build queries enhanced by some OWL axioms or queries. So much for OWL into the commercial world. I expect those will be primarily targeting biotechnology markets where OWL based systems seem to be gaining more momentum.
