Hi Robert, I think you are misunderstanding how OpenSource works. The geodata infrastructure and web publishing system your authority needs will cost 15.000 Euros or more, regardless of whether you choose ESRI or OpenSource. In the case of ESRI, you spend the 15.000 Euros on off-the-shelf software. Customization will cost extra. In the case of OpenSource, you either spend money on buying professional support (which can also include customization), or learning to work with the stack on your own. Depending on how expensive you are, and how much voluntary help you get from people on community forums, 15.000 Euros may not be sufficient if you need to learn everything yourself.
Regards, Andreas. On Dec 9, 2010, at 03:02 , Robert Buckley wrote: > Thanks for the offer of support Andreas. > > The problem is.. I work for an authority that are very ESRI orientiert. If I > were to say that we need ArcServer we would have it next week. I want to be > able to show to other public organisations in Germany that there is no need > to spend 15 000 euros on software to create a geodata infrastructure and and > web publishing system. > > This works great up to a point. I can use QGIS SAGA-GIS etc for all my > desktop needs and install geoserver/Postgis or even the opengeosuite to serve > the data on Linux servers.....but the crunch comes when web-apps need to be > created. The ability to be able to code with php/Javascript/Ext/GEoEXT/ etc > etc is intellectual property and this is exactly the stuff I need to learn. I > can´t get support for every little internet web I need to design as this > would not be practical. And it would also show that although opensource > geosoftware works, the ability to produce webapps is very limitied because > the techonology requires strong web-programming experience. > > Yours, > > Robert Buckley > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > WikiLeaks The End of the Free Internet > http://p.sf.net/sfu/therealnews-com_______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users -- Andreas Hocevar OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
