Just for argument's sake: Most of the providers of GIS are for-profit companies. If you consider that there are X dollars being spent on GIS, does it matter who is getting more installations or more dollars? It seems to me that if people are choosing to spend more for the "overpriced and under functional", that says something about the state of the market.
Obviously, though, those dollars are not distributed equally across the market, so looking at the GIS market as a whole is probably flawed anyway. I'd be more interested in seeing how the market breaks up based upon use (i.e., business vs resource planning vs am/fm etc.,). Being that I work in the business mapping sector, I suspect that MapInfo has a much bigger slice of the pie in that space than this survey would suggest. Gary. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gary Schwartz Director of Software Development Mapping Analytics 2 Graham Road West Ithaca, NY 14850 (585) 271-6490 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rich Morris wrote: > > I have a question though. > With Esri being overpriced, and under functional for the cost, Market > revenue is kind of a misleading research point. > How about money earned per software seat? How about seats sold > period? What about cost per seat vs. income generated? > I know this comes from a biased source (a MapInfo user working for a > "for profit" company) but can't we look at indicators that mean more to > either the users or the people who receive the services, rather than the > posturing of the companies? > rm > > Bill Thoen wrote: > > > >From time to time, people here ask for numbers on the players in > > the GIS market. Today's GIS Monitor has the numbers from > > Daratech's newest study (see DARATECH RELEASES 2001 GIS > > MARKETSHARE NUMBERS > > http://www.gismonitor.com/news/newsletter/archive/111402.php#Daratech > > for more details). Here's the standings: > > > > COMPANY 2001 2000 > > ESRI 35 36 > > Intergraph 13 16 > > GE Network Solutions 7 7 > > Autodesk 7 6 > > Leica Geosystems (ERDAS) 6 2 > > MapInfo 6 6 > > IBM 5 2 > > SICAD 5 6 > > Logica 3 3 > > Other 14 11 > > GeoGraphix 3 > > Enghouse 2 > > > > I suspect there's some rounding error here or there was more than > > 100% of the 2001 market to go around. (I wonder who got it?) > > > > -- > > - Bill Thoen > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 > > tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 > > mailto:bthoen@;gisnet.com, http://www.gisnet.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Message number: 4089 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message number: 4110 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 4112
