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New FME 2007 Available from Safe Software

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Safe Software writes "FME 2007 introduces support for raster data, making it the industry's first complete spatial ETL tool. It also includes more than 2100 enhancements. For a free trial, white paper and FME 2007 highlights document, visit www.safe.com/2007."

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