On Lunes, 9 de abril de 2012 15:04:57 Stefan Keller escribió: > I did not understand: Are they changing their business model? Do they > abandon obvious vendor lock-in issues?
IMHO, ESRI is trying to cover every possible ground. They want to appeal to both open- and closed-source devs so, no matter who wins in the end, they're still in business. I saw this very clearly with OSM data support on their part. They want to have the best software for managing OSM data, *and* the best sw to manage navteq data, *and* the best sw for managing their own data, *and* the best sw to manage official NMA data. So no matter which dataset "wins", you will want to use their products. By covering every possible ground, they make sure they cover the winning ground. At least that's what I think their strategy is. Best, -- ---------------------------------- Iván Sánchez Ortega <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
