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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] ArcGIS 9 - recommend postponing installation |
| Date: |
06/01/2004 04:10:01 PM |
| From: |
Brian Russo |
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At Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 04:42:08PM -0400, Ross, Gregory K. wrote:
> I think any organization that has Visual Basic (or VBA) familiar programmers
> or casual users would argue with you on the 'efficient' point of ESRI
> software. Only other GIS software that can come close to competing in
> efficient automation would be some Java based programs...........However,
> I'll bet there are more Visual Basic (or VBA) familiar users out there than
> Java familiar users......Not to mention that ESRI ArcGIS Engine provides
> application programming interfaces (APIs) for COM, .NET, Java, and C++.
Most/all of the major packages out there have most/all of these APIs..
Intergraph, Autodesk, MapInfo, Manifold.. I'm probably missing something
as I've not used these packages enough to guage their quality in this
regard.. However I'd prefer to avoid developing a nitpicky
buzzword-compliancy debate.. Suffice to say that having APIs for common
languages like C++ and .NET is by no means uniquely ESRI.
> ESRI products do not perform what exactly?
Encountering ludicrous bugs such as adjusting the curvature of a
neatline and watching annotations disappear have made me very jaded as
to the quality of their software.. Perhaps the most amusing bugs are
when their forms controls disappear or are misaligned.
Maybe if our ArcInfo license can ever actually process reasonably sized
datasets without dying then I will become less cynical of the matter.
> Automation is the key to efficient software workflow. If you can't automate
> the process, that means it is high in "user time" and demands rather
> specific tasks that are not even close to being efficient no matter what
> software you use. Software is simply a means of automating tasks........
Agreed, but this is not uniquely a feature of ESRI's products.
cheers,
- bri
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