TC Haddad wrote:
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To elaborate on the "unequal footing" phrase above:
One additional aspect of the government side of this equation is that
for several years there has been a trend (similar to Microsoft
products) in getting the ESRI architecture adopted as a GIS software
standard within government IT enterprise contexts. This then requires
agencies to transition to use of the ESRI platform exclusively for
geospatial work.
Projecting into the future, if there were 2 competing OGC service
types and ESRI were to drop support for the older W*S family of OGC
services (or merely push support for them out of the core packages and
into an expensive interoperability add-on), this would place many
agencies in a situation of only being able to serve the newer
standards, effectively killing the older standards within those
contexts...
Of course, isn't it funny, that it's getting harder and harder to find
ESRI stuff anywhere, government or not. Lot's of enterprise Google
Earth, and Google Maps Engine though.
Of note: I recently moved from the DoD world to the transit world. I
expected to find a lot of fleet management software built on top of ESRI
tracking server. Nope, everything uses Google Maps. Even the aircraft
tracking stuff that used to run on ESRI seems all to be Google based
these days.
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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