Still not really asking the right questions. Building a digital parcel 
ecosystem is much larger than web platform tech choices. Otherwise it becomes 
moot without the content. 

Josh Lieberman

On Jan 16, 2011, at 14:15, Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Bucci, David G wrote:
> 
>> Not an Apple fan, AM an SU fan, so I’ll play orange for this round.  Of 
>> different product selections (FOSS, COTS, GOTS in this case, I suppose) to 
>> use as the base for the project that was described, was what I was thinking.
>> 
> 
> The question is still too broad, too generic. Selections and technology are 
> secondary. What you want to accomplish is primary. If there is something that 
> a software/technology cannot do, and *that* is exactly what you need to do, 
> then you *have* to look elsewhere.
> 
> How about restricting the scope of the inquiry -- perhaps a tradeoff between 
> different map servers, or between different spatial data storage mechanisms, 
> heck, perhaps even between Windows or Unix or, ahem, cough, Macs. Just trying 
> to figure out the difference between FOSS, COTS, GOTS (I have no idea what 
> the heck GOTS is, but I gots some COTS and FOSS) without specifying the 
> capabilities one wishes to deliver is a very amorphous exercise.
>>  
>> 
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Puneet Kishor
>> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 1:52 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Geowanking] EXTERNAL: Re: Web-based geoservices for state 
>> government
>> 
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>> 
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>> 
>> On Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Bucci, David G wrote:
>> 
>> Stepping back, does anyone know of any published studies where somebody 
>> (without an ax to grind) really surveyed the marketplace and did a tradeoff 
>> analysis?
>> 
>>  ..
>> 
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>> 
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>> 
>> Everyone has an axe to grind, no matter how blunt the axe might be. 
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> That said, analysis of tradeoff between what and what, asked the apple of 
>> the orange?
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Puneet Kishor
>> 
>> Sent with Sparrow 
>> 
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