Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
All:
You may be interested to know that HUD decided that, in the future,
Community 2020 would no longer be a packaged software product. Rather, it
would be completely Internet based. This was disappointing, because of the
great success that has been achieved with the packaged solution based upon
Maptitude.
Caliper did not believe that this was the right strategy for HUD. We
thought that a combination of packaged product and Internet access was the
best solution. However, HUD's IT people wanted tight control over what
users could do and an easy way to maintain live data. Consequently, users
will get much less functionality if HUD follows through with that approach.
Also, if the Internet service is interrupted, users will get zero
functionality.
You should all be reminded that Community 2020 is based upon Maptitude 3,
so that it could run under Windows 3.x. This is now a very outdated version
of Maptitude. One major limitation is that it will not run under Windows
98. Caliper offered to move the software forward to Maptitude 4 for a very
small amount of money, but HUD declined. Instead, HUD had Caliper develop
the E-Maps solution that is currently on their web site at
(http://www.hud.gov/emaps/emapsintro.html). This application, which was
featured on CNN last weekend and received 250,000 page hits, runs quite
effectively on two cheap boxes. It is a good example of the power of our
web technology and the Maptitude mapping engine.
In order to provide a reasonable alternative for Community 2020 users,
Caliper has been offering a $150 upgrade to the current version of
Maptitude. We are also still providing limited support to Community 2020
users at our own expense, as HUD has discontinued its support contract with
Aspen Systems. Many Community 2020 users have switched quite successfully
to Maptitude 4.
Peter
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Caliper Corporation Fax: 617-527-5113
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