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Hello all,
Just my $0.02US,
We, Coastal Bend 9-1-1 Network, started with MI3.0
at the beginning, on my recommendation.
Well, I'm waiting for my Delphi5 VCL development
license for CartoMap to get here to finally put together a package that won't
need DLL's, MBX's, RunTime, or anything else, not to mention 40% fast screen
redraw of 22,000 line segment [county] with the 6800 structures [file totals
18+meg] and *double-precision* coordinates [ that's -97.1234567890123] in real
time.
We have some 40 license of MI. We only
upgraded everone to 4.0 and then only 6 people to 4.5.
Why 40*$500 [used to be $800] = $20,000
v3.0>4.0
................................$20,000
v4.0>4.5
................................$20,000
v4.5>5.0
................................$20,000
v5.0>5.5
................................$20,000
v5.5>6.0
Wish our government would be be a percent bonus on
yearly saving of $40,000
2 upgrades @ months == full copy
yearly..........not exactly rocket science and I just finished the two-es last
month.
OK, v6.0 now has controlable geocoding
[pullback/offset].............waiting all along for that
v5.x introduced have dms display but it sounds like
that is another piece of vaporware crippled upgrade
v4.0 BROKE THE PRINTING --- with the micro-display
I could repostion labels on a full display of a county
...............we still have 3.0 around to do
labeling and printing
HTML, WWW ---- It wouldn't be long before a someone
goofball sends a WIndoze email and takes down our entire 911 system because it
Web-Centric [buzz word of vaporware] ----- AIN'T GONNA
HAPPEN.......
Any lawyers [choke] out there want to investigate
the *lemon law* on software..............
...................'NUFF SAID -- gotta drive 90
miles to train one of our users, again...........
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