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 snow to 
people living North of Resolute as an entry point to the career ;)

Chris

----- "Bill Thoen" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 very impressed with ESRI's marketing -- if they can sell
> 
> this, they could sell snow to Santa Claus!
> 
> Regards,
> - Bill Thoen
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