The combined pressures of organizations facing small budgets and big publishing problems have caused the emergence of an interesting business model: the Imagery Collaborative (IC). SGIC is a group of small to medium-sized organizations, governmental and non-governmental, getting together and cooperating to share the costs of collecting, maintaining, and publishing the data our customers require.
Checkout the full blog post on the OGC web site at
http://www.opengeospatial.org/blog/2191