[Freegis-list] gis meeting

[Francois Badet]

Hi Paolo,

It looks like a very interesting experience to have on the one hand the 
major GIS players and to demonstrate on the other hand the technical 
capabilities of available Open Source solutions.

In your opinion what do the major GIS players mean when they say that 
the presence (and expected increase) of Open Source is positive ? Do 
they see some opportunities for their business ? Don't they see some 
clear threats for their current business model ?

Also, you mention that Esri claims to offer "guarantee" but that the 
public pointed out that it is not true. I would be interested to know 
what the public did say. I suspect that some participant mentioned some 
difficulties in their  customer-provider relationnship with Esri. Am I 
wrong ?

Best regards,

Francois Badet
f.badet at free.fr
+33 6 33 69 36 83



Paolo Cavallini wrote:

>Hi all.
>Last thursday I had a public meeting with major GIS players in Italy (esri, 
>intergraph, autodesk, etc). It was a bit hard, but I consider it a success: 
>all admitted that "open source" software will increase in the near future, 
>and that its presence is a positive one.
>A funny note: esri tried to say that they offer "guarantee" for their 
>products, but the public easily pointed out this is not true.
>In the afternoon, we had a more technical workshop that was well attended; the 
>potential of qgis, grass, maopserver etc was shown.
>All the best.
>pc
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