In 2002 MapInfo has probably looked at estimated costs and benefits from
taking a number of strategic decisions and choose to do "Project Grande". At
this point (2006) there has been a significant sunken cost, so either they
still expect more very significant cost before they have something working
or the benefits do no longer seem so great compared to what they have today.
Also, by bringing out an almost new platform (which would only have the TAB
file in common with existing MI Pro), MI Corp. introduces a big risk of
loosing customers to other platforms. In 2002 ArcGIS was still a very new
product, so at that point it would have been easier to compete against it
and speed of modern computers has also made ArcGIS fell less slow than it
used to do.
An interesting question is: What will they do instead? Do a 64-bit version?
Keep improving the 32-bit version for many years? Restart the Grande project
in a couple of years?
Another question is what other project MI Corp could have started in 2002?
Perhaps that multi-user geodatabase (similar to ArcSDE), that Doug Cubin
asked for a couple of days ago. Imagine if we had that today,
out-of-the-box, easy to use?
Lot's of Friday afternoon guessing :-)
Regards
Uffe
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From: "Flavio Hendry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mats Elfström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: Sv: Fw: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?
Hi Mats / Uffe
I completely agree with Mats: SAD! And I do not think there would be too
many people crying after ancient outdated MapBasic (what an excuse, it's
like: "it still must run on windows 95" ...). ESRI did the right thing:
if you do it new, do it right and do not take all this old legacy stuff
along.
Uffe: I did not see anything ever, that a .NET based MapInfo would get
as slow as ArcGIS (Bos is right, it's more of a format issue) ... Demos
of Grande I have seen, very at the usual MapInfo speed. You must mix it
up with Java, that is the slow "lots coffee drinking software" (their
logo really matches :-) ...).
That MapInfo does not do anything
Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards
Flavio Hendry
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