> Wow. Look at how MapInfo's Web-based GIS costs more than twice as much as
> anybody else's, at
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,382745,00.html
>
> Does MapInfo's product have twice the value? I sort of doubt it. Let me
> know if I'm wrong. Can the others do street-based geocoding? (I don't
> think I'll ever be able to convince anyone to pay $24,495 for anything,
> nonetheless Web-based GIS.)
>
> Hah: you could practically by all three other products for the price of
> one MapInfo MapXtreme.
>
For that matter, it wouldn't cost that much more to add in ESRI's
MapObjects Internet Map Server ($5k server license, $2k for the Map Objects
development tools.) PC Week left that one out, but we've found it can
be quite effective.
Charlie Richman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICF Information Technology
voice (703) 934-3938 9300 Lee Highway
fax (703) 691-3353 Fairfax, Virginia 22031
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