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| Subject: | RE: GISList: ArcView vs MapInfo vs Manifold |
| Date: |
08/27/2002 10:09:08 AM |
| From: |
Hugo Ahlenius |
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Hi,
I think you have a point. There are a few of the publications that I have a
higher respect for than others -- directions magazine is one of those. I
have actually been suprised in some other "trade magazines" that there are
so few real reviews of the software (if there is anything, it is more of a
walk-through of the features).
As for (fairly) unbiased evaluations of software head-to-head, I assume
there are boat-loads of internal papers on that lying around at
institutions, government organizations, cities and companies. It would be
good, perhaps, if more of those were linked up?
/Hugo
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Hugo Ahlenius E-Mail: hugo@grida.no
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Quantitative Decisions [mailto:whuber@quantdec.com]
| Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 16:20
| To: dar@manifold.net
| Cc: gislist@geocomm.com
| Subject: RE: GISList: ArcView vs MapInfo vs Manifold
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| At 06:31 PM 8/26/02 -0700, Dimitri Rotow wrote:
| >All of the journalistic
| >organizations reporting on GIS are so small they cannot
| afford to alienate
| >their big advertisers by writing favorable reviews about
| non-advertisers.
| >You'd feel the same way and would do the same thing in their
| shoes, as would
| >I
|
| This is the Nth time (N >> 3) in just a few weeks that
| someone has made
| this claim. I can no longer stand by and be tarred with this
| brush, this
| undiscriminating, inclusive "all" that commences the statement.
|
| I challenge Dimitri or anyone else to support this claim with
| evidence. (How you "would feel" does not count.) And
| Dimitri, if you
| cannot, I believe you owe public apologies to a lot of "journalistic
| organizations."
|
| In the case of Directions Magazine, which I edited during
| 2001 and to which
| I contributed for several preceding years, I assert without
| reservation
| that these aspersions and calumnies about us being
| editorially beholden to
| "big advertisers" is out-and-out false. Scott Elliott,
| founder and first
| editor of the magazine until his untimely death last year, especially
| relished piquing the powers that be: even if they were also
| his advertisers
| or, at one point, his employers.
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