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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] GIS software/hardware donations for 3rd World |
| Date: |
01/31/2005 02:25:00 AM |
| From: |
GISex* Technologies |
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The most important issue? all may not accpet this as a reality but it's
true and prevailing, forget about 10% prices, talk about Pirated software
here 98% use pirated software and sold openly through a website? in every
nook and corner shops for Rs. 100@each CD, or to say 2$ a pice. Please
know the whole world reality, it's not what's happening in USA?
--
Krishan Sharma, Ph.D. (USA)
www.gisextechnologies.com
info@gisextechnologies.com
Mobile: 933-300-8409 & 0987-0129-4791
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> Excellent points Pat. ESRI (and others) supposed business partner
> programs
> also fall into this category as well. ESRI's strategy, long ago, was to
> seed the universities with "Arc-speak" at any cost [read: free or just
> about
> free licenses] so that newly minted graduates would conclude that GIS =
> ESRI
> ["arc" for example, being a proprietary software command line used by ESRI
> and not necessarily a universally accepted concept], but ask any graduate
> today about what they know regarding GIS and a good number will start out
> by
> saying, "We used ESRI.....". Great strategic vision, if nothing else.
> The
> other vendors have not been nearly as successful in trying to push their
> products down to the formative years of GIS/Geographic education, and so
> it
> is true around the world. This is not 100% a bad thing, by any means,
> but,
> it does conveniently lead to a natural dominance by ESRI in the global
> market, one that they are loath to relinquish anytime soon. How many
> clients have had their systems converted for "free" or "nearly free" if
> they
> switch platforms ? Well, that is another vehicle for subsidization,
> because
> migrating from Intergraph to ESRI is not cheap by any means. Anyway, I
> got
> pummeled on this topic by a number of open source advocates, so I will
> return to my cave now...
>
> Anthony
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