[Freegis-list] MapServer/FreeGIS and the market

[Dave McIlhagga]

Hi Eduardo,

In Canada we are beginning to see more and more job postings that do 
include experience with MapServer. I believe this is directly related to 
the efforts we have made at DM to promote and sell our company, the 
value that comes from the technology, and the open source software 
development approach. Importantly -- this is in large part due to the 
types of people we present this to - decision makers, not just technical 
people. Very different arguments and messages appeal to decision makers, 
and unfortunately, too often individuals or companies only promote 
technical and "free" benefits of open source software.

When properly composed, from sound business fundamentals - we have 
witnessed that the message can be very powerful and as a consequence of 
this hard work, we have seen attitudes in Canada change dramatically in 
the past four years.

The ultimate result of this has been that in the past couple of years we 
have begun to see job postings for people with skills in open source 
technologies -- and as this message continues to grow and spread -- I'm 
confident that this will multiply in the future.

Dave

-- 
Dave McIlhagga
President, DM Solutions Group

http://www.dmsolutions.ca
EMail : dmcilhagga at dmsolutions.ca
Phone : 613-565-5056 x15
Fax : 613-565-0925

Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> this is more a discussion and "opinion-collector" topic than a technical
> question.
> 
> Despite the known high potencial of MapServer and other very useful free gis
> tools, it's still very hard to find MapServer/Free GIS job offers at gis
> jobs websites or other GIS related sites.
> 
> Why do you think this happen this way?
> - do you think mapserver/freegis packs are not sufficient known to get a
> place at commercial media?
> - or could commercial proprietary software companies be doing something to
> avoid free gis from growing up?
> - or does companies know that this kind of professional is more difficult to
> find and then prefer not to loose time on high media announces and look for
> professionals only via people networking?
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Eduardo Patto Kanegae
> http://www.webmapit.com.br
> ICQ: 303747254
> MSN: eduardo_patto at hotmail.com
> phone:+55(16)9994-2928
> 
> Treinamento em UMN MapServer -
> http://www.webmapit.com.br/ptbr/?menuoption=mapserver
> Fórum MapServer Brasil - http://mapserver.cttmar.univali.br/forum
> 
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