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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] AV Performance |
| Date: |
10/22/2004 03:30:01 PM |
| From: |
Michael Gould |
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Sean, some good points there. Reminds me of one of the central messages
of Carr's "IT doesn't matter" article, now extended in a book: Once
everyone else (your competitors) also have the technology you have, then
it becomes a commodity (not an advantage) and so upgrading all the time
is counterproductive. More productive is to get the version you have
bullet-proofed. Spend less. Wait longer between upgrades. Maximize QoS
instead of novelty.
http://geoinfo.dlsi.uji.es/geodatos/IT%20doesnt%20matter.pdf (1.9 MB
on a slow server: hardware upgrades won't help you here!)
That said, many users are stuck with the latest-greatest beta version
because someone else bought it....and these users sometimes need
hardware upgrades to keep their head above water.
cheers,
Mike Gould
sean.frey@pc.gc.ca wrote:
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>When I first started in GIS, I was very keen to have the latest greatest
>tools and even served as a beta tester on some products. After a while it
>became evident that it is very costly to be on the front edge of the
>technology. It's not just lag and performance issues, but learning new ways
>of doing the same things, migrating data, catalogues, metadata, etc. It all
>comes down to need. If you have determined that the new tools have
>functionality that will address your needs more effectively then you can
>develop a business case to go there, otherwise are resigning yourself to
>needless frustration.
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>I was just at a user group meeting where they described ArcGIS 9 and the
>first service pack that fixes 110 issues. I was grateful that I didn't have
>to discover and work around any of those. They even mentioned bringing back
>some functionality (like supporting AML) and selling it as a new feature.
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>I'm blissfully chugging along with AV3.3 which I rarely have to wait for
>even with large queries, running a stable version of Win2000 on a machine
>designed for XP. Crashes used to be daily occurrences on my machines and
>now I go months without seeing fatal exceptions or even AV errors. I have
>yet to come across a process that I couldn't solve with this version,
>particularly with the extensive user scripts available for this platform.
>Granted there are some great tools in the future versions (like the
>modelling and scripting toolboxes) that look very exciting, but it seems to
>make good sense to wait until the issues are resolved before migrating. All
>I know is that I had two machines running simulataneously before so I could
>so something on one while the other was crunching, and I haven't had to
>turn the other machine on in a long time.
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>That is your power. If you don't upgrade you are sending a very clear
>message about whether the product is meeting your needs or not.
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>Hope this helps,
>
>Sean
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Michael Gould
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(Depto Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos)
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