No 10 point bullets. We were moving off of ArcView after 10 years and looked at both ArcGIS and MapInfo. We looked at 3 time cost parameters. Development, stability and performance. MapInfo won on all 3 counts. Ease of development was a landslide. So was stability. On performance, there are some things ArcGis does better/faster/easier but they were too few to tip the scales of even an "honorable mention" in an overall performance comparison.
Licensing cost was a very lightly weighted 4rth parameter. The result: We're now on MapInfo. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Rideout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 7:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: MI-L MapInfo v ArcGis Dear All, You are all a bit partisan I am sure but has anyone got say 10 bullet points on the pros and cons of MapInfo 8 v ArcGIS 9? Personally I would say MapInfo is more MS Office / Windows friendly, more suited to the non GIS person who wants to do maps, more business orientated (analyse your sales), less technical, while Arc is more specialist, more for the techy, has more (costly) extensions, etc. Thanks in advance, Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director The XYZ Digital Map Company Unit 9 Phase 2 Hardengreen Business Park Dalhousie Road Dalkeith Scotland EH22 3NX Tel +44 131 454 0426 Fax +44 131 454 0443 Mobile + 44 7766 825937 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned by MCI/MessageLabs Managed Email Service. --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 17971
