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| Subject: | GISList: I concede! .E00 Rules! |
| Date: |
01/12/2002 05:31:35 PM |
| From: |
Robert Heitzman |
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Ok, I concede. ESRI is the center of the GIS universe and .E00 is an
excellent interchange format.
Once the thread on .E00 got cross posted (not by me) into ESRI land that has
become obvious. Obviously the Manifold-L list has either a mole, or a
defector from ESRI land! :)
Any way... I've been here before, about 10-15 years (20?) before. Then it
was IBM and DEC reps huddled together behind cipher locked doors with the
mainframe staff. Calling in the regional sales staff to wine and dine the
boss till he didn't mind signing off on the latest multi-megabuck purchase
order. They held up well! For a while.
ESRI may already be dead if history holds. Pick the model: IBM or DEC,
slightly different, about the same. Either way, dead man walking. Hanging
onto the data already captured is the last stand. Good luck!
Looks to me that ESRI, and probably the other mainframe/minicomputer era GIS
firms, are going for the IBM model and will attempt a tighter grip on the
shops that they already OWN, and their data. IBM is still around anyway, it
must be a better model than DEC. And they are the center of universe anyway
- right?
Maybe ESRI will see the light and really try and compete on the desktop.
Maybe squash all that pesky budget software competition and become another
Microsoft! Hey, that should make you all happy! You all like the Microsoft
model - don't you? It'll kill my .E00 complaints, everything will be in
.esri format - no problem!
Time for dancing lessons guys. Budget time is going to get a lot more
interesting once the PC class, and open source, software gets established.
Then again what do I know? I'm a newbie to GIS, unfortunately not
indoctrinated into the ESRI ways. No megabuck investment to defend. Just a
bozo that hasn’t a clue as to how things really are. (At last - something
you can agree with! :) Given that I guess you can just ignore all the
observations above - if you can.
Keep whistling!
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