John,
Your information here is fantastic, and I'd love to see it worked into a
case study. This is the sort of information that Government departments
ask for all the time.
"This Open Source stuff sounds great, but who else has used it? Are
there any case studies that we can look over?"
If
To follow up re: status of ArcIMS
I just checked the ESRI site, clicked on Products, Server GIS and ArcIMS
is nowhere to be found. As well, if you select Training and search for
courses, you will find exactly "zero" instructor-led courses for
ArcIMS. (ArcIMS is also listed under "Other Prod
And don't forget to talk about the costs of exit. Becoming very popular in IT
procurement discussions, that one. Openness means very low cost of exit,
proprietary software licencing businesses are dependent on a high cost of exit.
Proprietary software sales requires evidence of previous sales of
Thanks for the help folks, especially to John Callahan. That was the
best description of the problem with the ESRI solution that I've seen to
date. What they offer may be good or not --I don't have the experience
to argue that point-- but they are even more expensive that I had
imagined. I'm v
A few more thoughts after reading your email again...
I don't think an ESRI solution can do much of what you mention out of
the box aside from creating basic ArcMap MXDs and ArcScene SXDs (used
with 3D Analyst) that utilize database connections to ArcSDE. These
only work in a LAN with access
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:38 AM, John Callahan wrote:
> I've dealt with this question before but not quite with those specifics.
> Actually, I've had these issues from a different angle: people who already
> have the ESRI suite because their larger company or government agency
> purchased an ESRI
A couple more suggestions:
- make sure to include either tile server or geowebcache in the mix to
minimize hardware costs
- try and cost for a three year window in order to capture the
respective difference in license costs
- where ESRI is already used I normally do not suggest open source as
an al
I've dealt with this question before but not quite with those
specifics. Actually, I've had these issues from a different angle:
people who already have the ESRI suite because their larger company or
government agency purchased an ESRI enterprise license yet they were
looking at open source as
i am glad if we can compare with GeoServer also :)
F
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Bill Thoen wrote:
> I need to make a case for developing a map and data server using Open
> Source software such as MapServer, Open Layers, PostgereSQL/PostGIS to
> counter a proposal to go with ESRI's soluti