Dear Dimitri, Dear GIS World,
Happy New Year,
It's a very nice discussion regarding OGC & GIS,
it's amazing, and I'm one who is enjoying it.
But I have a small comment to Dimitri,
I know you're very biased to your product,
but don't do this over the underestimation of other
GIS contributors :
> You can see the lack of fresh development in GIS where, except for
Manifold,
> there has been no new major package emerge and the existing legacy vendors
> introduced nothing substantial. Line extension products, yes, major new
> entrants, no. Yes, ESRI introduced the "8" series but this is just a
fresh
> coat of paint over the same basic ESRI ideas that date back to the '80s,
and
> even that was delayed by what, three years? Even today, no one is making
> the investment into desktop GIS that we are. For example, MapInfo appears
to
> have given up on the desktop, hoping that LBS will make it an economically
> viable concern.
I'm sorry to tell you that there are other fresh development in GIS,
look for GE Smallworld, look for CadCorp, look for Geomedia,
and of course ESRI, and the development in the spatial-engines
in the RDBMS data providers, and others ....
This is real, and they're making good job, not only Manifold !!!!
I know that Manifold price is not compitive with other vendors,
but price is not the only factor !!!
Regards,
Mohamed Eleiche
GeoTiba Systems
P O Box 17
Zamalek, 11211, Cairo,
Egypt
Tel +20 10 147 9703
Tel/Fax +20 15 383720
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