Mark,
Your remarks are completely correct. However, I would question whether Andy
is trying to minimize our opinions. Given the huge amount of code he has
contributed to our community, personal conversations, and his
accomplishments outside MapInfo Corporate, I would guess this original
founder has a great deal of respect for the list.
My point of contact in our largest corporate account is an Andrew Dressell
type of person. She shares with me her frustration on trying to explain GIS
and its global impact to her anointed bottom-line leaders and has found it
more rewarding to stand at the bow fending off looming rocks than to create
a ruckus and rock the boat.
John Haynes
Director
Geodata Consultants, Inc.
1-800-838-6661
www.geodataconsult.com
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 4:51 AM
Subject: Re: MI-L MapInfo 6.5 reply
> Ton, Andrew & List,
>
> Before I get hundreds of replies I'd point out that I already have a
> Sartup.wor in which is the requisite set projection clause.
>
> My point to Andrew was that a simple thing as this should be part of the
> core functionality of MI and not left to be put into a startup workspace
> which, when you think about it in the corporate environment, which I work
> in, do not have many 'power users' but a lot of basic MI users who
wouldn't
> know what a startup workspace was as they just want to use it not
understand
> it.
>
> My main point to Andrew was that a lot of users feel they do not get a
fair
> hearing and that these users are the ones who work for MI's beloved
> 'corporate customers'. I think Andrew's answer to Tim Warman was a 'cop
out'
> and I was trying to establish with whom he 'consults' as to the way
forward
> and, just exactly how he and MI test the efficacy of there existing
approach
> when many people have been waiting for years for the 'little' things.
>
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