[Freegis-list] migrating ESRI-GeoMedia to Open source

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am 27. Feb 2005 um 16:44:58 schrieb Essam Salah:
>    I want to migrate my existing applications to use open source or Free
>    software 

BTW: "open source" is just another word for Free Software, so you
can only have it (with both words basically meaning the same) or nothing.

> to lower the cost of the total solutions that I am providing
>    to new customers

A worthwile goal, the rule of thumb is that Free Software can 
help to reduce the 30% of the total cost of operations over
the mid or long-term ranges. 

>    Please advice about what software will be equivalent in functionality
>    to ArcView or GeoMedia; beside being easy in integration or
>    customization

It depends.
	Thuban, QGIS and OpenEV being candidates.
	There is also Jump and openmap, but with both you currently 
	might fall in the Java trap easily.

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