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I hope Caliper appreciates this love fest we are having for Maptitude. But
seriously, I hope they can come up with a bit better marketing scheme that
won't break the bank but would advance the product more. First, they deserve
it, second, a larger user community would benefit us Mapt users, third, and
definitely not last - it would extend the use of GIS in lots of areas, like
public health. I am amazed that the Internet is used as much as it is when
the vast majority of people are hooked over 56k lines or slower - imagine if
everyone were at cable modem speed or faster? ISP service in the USA is
dismal - its far better in Europe.
Same with GIS. AV is retarding the development of GIS because of its
expense, unfriendliness and ESRI's attitude of thinking they are royalty or
something. Ordinary folks are not going to touch GIS when they think the
only option is AV. But those ordinary folks are the ones that could do the
most good for society with a decent GIS tool.
Richard Hoskins
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-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Manire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 3:38 PM
To: Maptitude
Subject: RE: [Maptitude] Maptitude vs. ArcView & mapinfo
Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
Well folks, Richard Hoskins' "war story" has prompted me to come out of the
closet.
I was an ESRI PC ARC/INFO and AV dealer from 1988 to 1995! I had sold many,
many copies of PC/AI and AV, but it was quite a nightmare supporting and
using them. They just weren't windows friendly and I kept insisting that
ESRI should make them more user and Windows friendly, to little avail. To
make matters worse, ESRI's regional offices shamelessly competed with their
dealers while providing spotty support (this may have changed).
When I first saw MT at a Boston Computer Society "MegaMeeting" at U.
Mass-Boston in 1995 I was blown away by it. In the first five minutes of
demo I said "this is what I've been waiting for!" I immediately switched
myself and a large number of clients to MT with great success. BTW, I owned
and used a copy of MI at the time also. I found MT to be better organized
and tighter as a product, although MI would be my second choice after MT.
Well the rest is history. My clients love MT and I make a good living with
it. I have given Caliper over 500 comments and suggestions and they have
included the vast majority of my recommendations in later releases.
That's my two cents for today.
Larry Manire
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