All I would have weighed in on this sooner but wanted to let the dust clear a little. I agree with Flavio that we should relax. However, going forward, now that we are back in the loop, we must be diligent to get this right. Much depends on that.
I too am concerned specifically about the brand name and I will tell you why. As Flavio says, we will work with what we have. My company has put a lot of time in to customizing MapServer apps for our clients. Many of my clients and would be clients use AutoCAD heavily and so they will more than likely want us to use something endorsed by AutoDesk. The rub here is that MSE will probably be different since it will be driven and developed by AutoDesk not the MapServer community. I think that is a safe assumption especially as the two products progress. I have a small company. It is very hard to hire people who have all of the skill necessary to customize MapServer. It will make it that much harder now that there are two versions Now most of you are probably saying Waaa! That is business. Change with the times. That is all well and good, but a simple name change, AutoDesk not using MapServer, would have alleviated this problem. Blaine ------- Blaine Hackett President, GIS RANGERS LLC --- Flavio Hendry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi guys (did not remark any girls :-( ...) > > what's about having a cool beer and just relax and > see what happens in > the next few month. if MSE is a good product, people > will use it, if > not, people will not use it. so what? and I am sure > mapserver will > profit, one way or the other. and can it really get > better then perfect > as it is already? :-) > > and who cares about the name. we sell solutions, not > names. to us it > does not matter if it is called arcims, mapxtreme or > mapserver. it has > to work. > > Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards > Flavio Hendry > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > TYDAC NEWS > http://www.tydac.ch/german/index.php?menu=News_actual > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ############ Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Kind > Regards > ############ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ############ TYDAC AG - http://www.tydac.ch > #### #### Geographic Information Solutions > #### #### Luternauweg 12 -- CH-3006 Bern > ############ Tel +41 (0)31 368 0180 - Fax +41 > (0)31 368 1860 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/
