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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Indian GIS usage |
| Date: |
12/22/2003 02:20:00 AM |
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Research .. NucleusGIS.com |
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nobody plans a socialist utopia with 100 billion dollars in its pockets.
at the cost of repetition: strong, active lobbying is what is needed to
achieve what this thread said it will achieve. any takers ? now the doers ?
cheers !
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dimitri Rotow" <dar@manifold.net>
To: <gislist@lists.thinkburst.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 10:43 PM
Subject: RE: [gislist] Indian GIS usage
>
> >
> > That is an interesting choice of words: "brining GIS to the masses."
Maybe
> > these folks should look at developing markets and products instead of
> > building "socialist utopias."
> >
>
> I think you are assuming too much from the phrase, which can just as
easily
> be read as an active, capitalist desire to tap into large volume, mass
> market sales, and to then further profit from the explosion of
> internconnected uses and market growth made possible by mass market use.
>
> Bringing computing technology to the masses has emerged as a classic way
of
> wiping out legacy competitors through volume sales. The extinction of
Data
> General, DEC and other minicomputer vendors at the hands of the likes of
> Dell and Gateway comes to mind as a hardware example. The annihilation of
> Wangwriters and IBM Displaywriters (1980's word processors that sold for
> $15,000 a seat and up) by a swarm of mass market, desktop, word processing
> packages like Electric Pencil and Word Perfect provides a software
example.
> In the next few years the extinction of legacy GIS packages worldwide by
> modern GIS technology and business methods that pushes the cost of GIS
> below $250 a seat will provide a GIS example of how developing mass
markets
> and products suitable for the masses will benefit those with the foresight
> to understand this inevitable trend.
>
> If anything, the moral is that the only people trying to preserve
"socialist
> utopias" are those fat and happy bureaucrats who buy the GIS equivalent
of
> $500 hammers and $2000 toilet seats and the vendors who sell to them.
It's
> exactly the uptake of modern technology at modern prices by the masses
that
> powers the evolution of software markets away from state-sponsored,
> low-value socialist utopias into high energy, free markets driven by
> millions of consumers. Let the good times roll! :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dimitri
>
>
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