Saw this go over the list for ArcView. Sounds like a problem is brewing for Jack's followers. And you thought you had problems with the cost of a 6.0 upgrade? Then I also saw that AkeExploiter is now 100% JAVA based - you know that free AkeView "viewer" follow-on that replaced the original AkeView 1.0 freebie. Looks like the Avenue group is either about to have to buy into Jack's VisualBasic thing for AkeInfo 8.0 or do JAVA? So is the "Basic" approach to mapping now vogue? I wonder what all those ESRI-ites sitting in front of their expensive Suns are thinking - Linux and Grass, now that's an answer... I don't want no stink'in Microsoft VB solution on my machine. And what about JAVA for the MapInfo group? Too easy, Mate, just invest in MapXtream Java edition - 100% parent compliant to JAVA specs and talks to Oracle's 8i via their much lower cost Spatial Cartridge - SDE you got to be kidding? MidNight Mapper aka Neil 6/17/00 ************ CLIP ********** Hi all For all of you who were wondering if Avenue has much of a future, the official response from Jack Dangermond himself is ----- "No Comment". Seriously, ESRI now has a site where numerous user questions are answered by the owner of ESRI himself. The site is http://www.esri.com/events/uc/surveyanswers/letter_questions.html and there is a lot of information about the future of ESRI. One of the questions specifically is what is the future of AML and Avenue and you can read his response. The answer is AML will be supported in ArcInfo 8. That's it, no mention of Avenue. Other questions ask about migrating existing ArcView projects to ArcView and the response is work is ongoing so that existing ArcView 3.x projects will "just work" in ArcView 8. I don't know what "just work" means but it doesn't sound good. More to the point, if and when we migrate to ArcView 8, all of the work, scripts, extensions, etc will have to be ported. I am not a VB programmer (yet) so I hope forums of this type can be a resource to convert Avenue to Visual Basic. Any ideas, suggestions, thoughts, etc. on this issue? I would love to see how some Avenue scripts can be done in VB to help my migration. There is a ton of knowledge on this forum and I hope we can all utilize it during this migration process. Thanks for any input. Bruce Rindahl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
