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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] Indian GIS usage |
| Date: |
12/22/2003 06:10:01 PM |
| From: |
Mike |
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I am not sure about that. However, I hope you are right. The world doesn't
need another basket case economy built on some silly idea of "GIS for the
masses" or anything else based on class struggle, closed markets, government
planned economic systems or other communist/socialist ideas that will not
serve the people of India.
However, I realize I am getting a bit far a field from the intent of this
list but I am interested in GIS markets and how to compete in them. India
has had lots of attention from U.S. IT developers since the bubble burst a
few years ago and what happens there does affect what happens in the U.S. I
am amazed at some of the ads I have seen from Indian developers saying that
they can produce software five times cheaper than what can be written in the
U.S. Why would any business person do that. What is wrong with charging only
two times less than what a U.S. company could charge? They would still get
the contracts and make much more money. I don't understand the mind set.
Finally, I recall that people use to say that the Japanese weren't very good
at "producizizizizing" anything but cheap seconds and unimportant products.
I don't think anyone can say that with a straight face any longer. I for
one, would never underestimate India's potentials or the size of its
markets.
-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of
Research@NucleusGIS.com
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 1:17 AM
To: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
Subject: Re: [gislist] Indian GIS usage
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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