Lucena, Ivan ha scritto:
> 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 el
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
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 http://phorum.dpi.inpe.br/ind
Lucena, Ivan ha scritto:
> I believe that TerraLib would deserve a better "technical look" than
> what I did but my initial impression was very favorable. What impress me
> the most was the raster-on-rdbms support.
...
> Talking about integration with other OSGeo projects I believe that the
> curr
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 observatio
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
succ
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"
> .
>
> We analysed 70 FOSS4G software projects taken from the
> FreeGIS list, and divided them into t
to do with our CAD work whenever possible.
Landon
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Just a short response,
tracting failed.
Just one perspective.
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Markus wrote: " I have to
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 su
ndon
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Gilberto and all,
I would like to give some comments on this from the pe
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 busin
Gilberto wrote: "...Individual-led software (a small team of 1-3 people) have
less quality and more mortality than the above."
I think OpenJUMP might be an example of the opposite case. In this situation
the less-than-ideal management of a FOSS GIS program by a private company led
to a fork. The
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Gilberto Camara wrote:
> For the FOSS4G effort to be fruitful and sustainable,
&g
anuary 03, 2008 9:09 AM
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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 ab
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 o
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 fine,
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 [ht
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 abou
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