Hi, Uffe,
You can buy twice or three times more memory for your computer and still pay
less for Manifold+RAM than for MapInfo. You can even buy Manifold + a new
powerful computer and still pay less in case you compare it with MapInfo +
MapBasic.
However, I think, the main idea of this discussion is about our possibility
to influence companies and about their wishes to make real improvements.
Since 1994 both my wife and I have written dozens of utilities for MapInfo -
first of all to simplify our life.
However, practically everything we wrote for MapInfo was included in
Manifold.
Manifold customers possibilities to influence their products are
incomparable higher than that in case of MapInfo. Manifold R5 contains
dozens of improvements based on my suggestions (of course, they definitely
were not only mine). I just can't understand why MapInfo doesn't includes
some simplest things, which are requested by so many customers. IMHO, every
product like a human has its youth, maturity and old age. Probably, MapInfo
is somewhere between last two stages.
Dmitri Bagh,
Vancouver
Canada
>
> Manifold sure has many nice and advanced features, but when I tested it
one
> year ago, it had some serious problems with datasets of any significant
> size. I tried to do some simple MIF imports and opening of tables in both
MI
> 5, Manifold 4.5 and ArcView 3.1 with TIGER like data. These test datasets
> aren't even big compared to the ones I use today (in MapInfo).
>
> Anyone is free to check out the results at www.routeware.dk/comparison.xls
> (not very nicely formatted though). I think they speak for themselves.
>
> Regards
> Uffe Kousgaard
> www.routeware.dk
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Hoskins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 2:05 PM
> Subject: RE: MI-L MapInfo 6.5
>
>
> > The information is likely out of date since Manifold is not at v 5 and
MI
> at
> > 6.5 but this web site
> http://www.manifold.net/intro/faster_smarter_home.html
> >
> > has a MI and Manifold comparison. But if you in addition look at the
> > features in Manifold v5 http://www.manifold.net/big_index.html, there is
> no
> > doubt that Manifold has detected that there is waiting potential users
> that
> > need analysis capacity. Much less if it works, the topology editing
> capacity
> > is way past ArcInfo. They throw in a VB 6 programming language, all for
> > under $250. Clearly this is no toy GIS either.
> >
> > I'd like to see all the stuff that is in Manifold in MI. MI as well as
> > virtually every other vendor except Manifold, Idrisi, TransCad, and AV,
> > ArcInfo has a little, don't know about AV 8.1 (through a 3rd party link
> > S-Plus) have virtually no statistical capacity. Although there is a new
> book
> > "Statistical Analysis with ArcView, Lee & Wong that throws in a sizeable
> > collection of programs, but weak on CAR, etc.
> >
> > R Hoskins
> > WA State Dept of Health
> > Olympia, WA
> > GMT -8
> >
> >
> >
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