Autodesk renamed Mapguide to IMS to indicate the server now supports
technology available in Map3d namely Infrastructure Modeling.
Support for that technology is likely to be nonavailable in the Open Source
version for some time.
So no, it's not just a fancy name change.
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hehe! I know
doesn't really matter, everyone calls the open source version MapGuide anyway
discussion over :)
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Hans
hehe! I know
doesn't really matter, everyone calls the open source version MapGuide anyway
discussion over :)
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Hans Milling wrote:
> Zac, I think you just put your hand into a hornets nest, hehe.
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Zac, I think you just put your hand into a hornets nest, hehe.
Hans...
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Maybe that is true
Changing the product name to something common and generic is a sure-fire
recipe to kill your googlability/SEO.
"MapGuide" is unique. "Infrastructure", "Map" and "Server" in any
combination is not. The acronym is even worse. Why would you want to share
an acronym with a dead ESRI product of all th
[mapguide-users] Re: Dropping the "open source" from product name for
2.4 release?
I think a product name change is a waste of developer cycles that are better
spent on more productive things.
- Jackie
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Maybe that is true, when Autodesk realizes "IMS" has the same connotation as
"Ford Pinto" or "Datsun 200B", it may revert back to MapGuide.
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I think a product name change is a waste of developer cycles that are better
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- Jackie
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