Paolo Cavallini wrote:
What I really miss on Terra* is the community: I tried several times to
contact it, especially to help having updated debian packages, but never
get a repy, something unusual for open projects.
All the best.
pc
There is a message forum at
Paolo,
I just got the latest issue of Dr. Dobbs Magazine with this cover-page
article South American Software Development:
http://www.ddj.com/architect/205600791;jsessionid=AXESE4MZSIY54QSNDLPCKHSCJUNN2JVN
This article is more focused on Brazil than anywhere else in South
America. It give a
IMO.
Gilberto,
In 2003, I did a F00S4G market survey and published the
results as a chapter of a US National Academy of Sciences book:
Open Source GIS Software: Myths and Realities
www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/papers/camara_open_source_myths.pdf.
We analysed 70 FOSS4G software projects
Hi Gilberto,
Gilberto Camara schrieb:
(Markus)
So from my point of view it is possible to compete in the GIS market
using an open source business model without any high-level government
intervention (although it surely helps)
I respectfully disagree. I doubt you could achieve the same
Hi Bruce,
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wrt the Brazillian TerraLib toolkit mentioned in your paper:
- I've had a quick look at the web site. The product appears to be quite
mature and functional.
- Has anyone from this list had a technical look at the products and
like to share their
Hi Gilberto (and list),
only a couple of notes
Gilberto Camara wrote:
Dear OSGEO Discussion List members:
Paul Ramsey´s remarks are right on target.
First, GIS is a large arena and there are
different motivations for developers, that
prevent them from joining a single project such as
Hi all,
I am *not* going to disagree with Andrea, Gilberto, Paul, Howard or
anybody else. I just want to point out a interesting open source
business model that is making a big impact this days. I am talking about
Xen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen].
I keep reading news and more news
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:26:51AM -0500, Lucena, Ivan wrote:
Hi all,
I am *not* going to disagree with Andrea, Gilberto, Paul, Howard or
anybody else. I just want to point out a interesting open source
business model that is making a big impact this days. I am talking about
Xen
Xen is one of those things where the market is SO DAMN HUGE that even
the very SMALL proportion of money that an open source company can
wring from the marketplace is actually non-trivial in an absolute
sense. If Red Hat is only monetizing 0.01% of the Linux marketplace,
that's still
Gilberto Camara wrote:
For the FOSS4G effort to be fruitful and sustainable,
we need a very informed and candid assessment of our
business model. My personal view, based on 25 years of experience,
is that government intervention is essential for the open source
model to survive beyond a handful
] Re: FOSS4GIS business models
Xen is one of those things where the market is SO DAMN HUGE that even
the very SMALL proportion of money that an open source company can
wring from the marketplace is actually non-trivial in an absolute
sense. If Red Hat is only monetizing 0.01% of the Linux
Gilberto and all,
I would like to give some comments on this from the perspective of a GIS
company with an Open Source business model, I hope you will find them of
interest.
lat/lon was founded in the year 2000 as a private company (in Germany)
and had from its beginning an open source
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Gilberto and all,
I would like to give some comments on this from the perspective of a GIS
company
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