Resistance is futile.... you will be assimilated Bob Garrett Senior RF Engineer Sprint PCS Kansas City, MO
One thing that stroke me last weekend when I was attending a seminar at a university in Denmark was the fact that we as MapBasic developers soon will be in complete control by Microsoft. We will no longer have our own developing language not connected to the Microsoft world. So every time Microsoft tells us to change our horses and go for a new developing enviroment, MapInfo and the rest of us just have to follow. This might also mean that sourcecode developed over the years might not longer be working in a new version of MapInfo that has shifted to a new developing enviroment. They reason why I realized this was the fact that I was told that stuff that had been developed for ArcGIS 8 not would work on ArcGIS 9 as ESRI has shifted from COM to .NET But of course we do get a major developing enviroment that we never have had when using MapBasic, so maybe the it's not that bad at all ?? Or ?? Peter Horsb�ll M�ller GIS Developer Geographical Information & IT COWI A/S Odensevej 95 DK-5260 Odense S. Denmark Tel +45 6311 4900 Direct +45 6311 4908 Mob +45 5156 1045 Fax +45 6311 4949 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cowi.dk/gis -----Original Message----- From: Uffe Kousgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:22 PM To: Mapinfo-L Subject: Re: MI-L MapInfo 7.8 Now we are talking new versions: Last week at the Danish MapInfo conference I was told by MapInfo Corp. that there would continue to be MapInfo for win32 for at least a couple more versions before they go .NET only. So expect: 1) MI 8.0 / win32 2) MI 8.0 / .NET (public beta in Dec/Jan) 3) MI 9.0 / win32 (or something like that) 4) MI 9.0 / .NET So they will be developing for 2 platforms at the same time for a period. Seems like they don't want to do the same as ESRI did by dropping the old platform too fast. Apparently they want to see how the new .NET version is received first. By being on maintenance you get all these versions for a fixed yearly price (at least I expect that). Regards Uffe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Thoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cowper, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "MapInfo-L (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:11 PM Subject: Re: MI-L MapInfo 7.8 On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Cowper, Brian wrote: > [regarding upgrading to 7.8] Is it worth the $$$ to upgrade or look for > add ons that you MapBasic gurus create that do the same job? Ver 7.8 isn't out until Sept. 20th, so nobody's tried it just yet. Whether it's worth the $$$ to upgrade depends on whether you want the new features (see http://www.gisnet.com/catalog/software/index.php?url=mapinfo/overview.htm) and bug fixes. If you depend on MapInfo for your work (as I do) I've found it lots more convenient to stay current. And if you skip an upgrade, the next one costs $200 more and if you have MapBasic, that upgrade goes from free to $295. BTW, if you get the optional Upgrade Protection plan for $395 when you upgrade, all the major upgrades over the next year are shipped to you automatically... which means if 8.0 comes out within the next, you'd be getting it for essentially $395 instead of the usual $595. Furthermore, if you buy your upgrades from resellers (like me) who support MapInfo-L, you further the cause, and get all the free add-ons we build and donate to the archives. Buy from MapInfo direct or through some other reseller who's never heard of MapInfo-L, and one day all the freebies here will dry up and we all might be standing out on street corners in the freezing snow trying to sell matches to eke out a living... er, maybe. - Bill Thoen www.gisnet.com 303-786-9961 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 13309 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 13311 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 13312
