[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source vs Closed source

2010-04-15 Thread Bob Basques
All, We've got a discussion going on in the office about the subject line. I was wondering if folks here had any pointers to online information, both from a superficial view (low detail level, IE Manager speak) as well as some somewhat higher level information about costs, in the short term/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source vs Closed source

2010-04-15 Thread John Callahan
Paul Ramsey's keynote at FOSS4G 2009 immediately comes to mind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB_a28vBtBkfeature=related - John ** John Callahan, Geographic Information Scientist Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware URL:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source vs Closed source

2010-04-15 Thread Lester Caine
Bob Basques wrote: We've got a discussion going on in the office about the subject line. I was wondering if folks here had any pointers to online information, both from a superficial view (low detail level, IE Manager speak) as well as some somewhat higher level information about costs, in the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source vs Closed source

2010-04-15 Thread Bob Basques
Lester, I've already found a bunch of stuff, just trying to figure out the authority aspects, do the writers know what they are talking about, etc, need to pass things on to people that don't know or want to know the details, but are interested in savings (which is my primary sales focus, so

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source vs Closed source

2010-04-15 Thread Frans Thamura
here, i am help bakosutranal, our goverment GIS departement we still have a lot of question, how good is OSGEo product :) which we know they are opensource..vs ESRI -- Frans Thamura Meruvian. Experiential Tempation of Java and Enterprise OpenSource Meruvian jTechnopreneur Program (S1) telah

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source vs Closed source

2010-04-15 Thread Arnie Shore
Open source forces a dependence on the vendor's business plans - an issue too infrequently noted in the discussions I've seen. In our case - as the developer of an Open Source dispatch software - we had user interest in integrating our package with asterisk, an Open Source pbx system. Now with

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source vs Closed source

2010-04-15 Thread Streithorst, Kip
http://www.opensource.org/osi-open-source-education#presentations_developed_by_osi http://www.dwheeler.com/ Kip From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Basques Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 10:46 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source vs Closed source

2010-04-15 Thread Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Basques wrote: All, We've got a discussion going on in the office about the subject line. I was wondering if folks here had any pointers to online information, both from a superficial view (low detail level, IE Manager speak) as well as

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSSGIS conference comitee announces Call for location for 2011

2010-04-15 Thread Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V.
The FOSSGIS-conference is the largest german-language conference for Free and Open Source Software for GIS and Free Geodata. Today, the Conference Committee announced the Call for location for 2011. The annual FOSSGIS-conference is hosted by the OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH. Because the

[OSGeo-Discuss] A quick poll!

2010-04-15 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
I've been talking to the folks at gisjobs.com, encouraging them to add open source technology to their salary survey. But first he wants to see if how many visitors to his site even use open source. You might be interested in completing his current poll: Do you ever use Open Source GIS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A quick poll!

2010-04-15 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
Wow, in a few short hours the yes/no results in the poll went from 38/38% to 85/5% - thanks for voting, that's very cool to see. On a similar note, because many of the OSGeo libraries are also used behind proprietary products, many proprietary users won't even know that they actually do use