I haven't worked with MapInfo for some time so some of my information may be dated. But MapInfo did write a good bit of their Internet product in JAVA. Plus I find they better understand deployment in a business environment: their Internet product have been faster and they crash less. One of the things that always bugged me about ESRI's products was that when my server went down, I had to manually reboot Arc. That's not the way that apps should work. But again, my direct work with MI is a few years old so things may have changed.
In Quebec, MapInfo is still the preferred choice among municipalities because new products are always translated into French much faster than ESRI's. Renee Landon Blake wrote: > > I’ve got a small sanitary district that has asked my company for > assistance with implementing a GIS. Unfortunately I won’t be able to > utilize open source GIS programs that I work with on this project, or > at least not as extensively as I would like to. So I am currently > considering alternatives. I know most people use ESRI software, but if > I can’t use open source I’d like to give the little guy a chance. > > Do any wankers have experience with MapInfo? How does it measure up > against the “light” version of ESRI’s ArcView? How would it compare to > a program like QGIS or OpenJUMP? > > Thanks for any info you can provide on MapInfo. I’m currently > downloading the demo and will take the program for a run this afternoon. > > The Sunburned Surveyor > > > > *Warning: > *Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against > defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader > is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is > strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, > please notify the sender immediately. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
