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We have lost the higher ed market to
one vender now we are loosing an even more group powerful group. Lack of
diversity kills innovation.
On the other hand what a brilliant
marketing ploy. If one can just delay immediate $ gratification for a few years
the $ harvest in a few years will be bountiful and more important
ongoing.
Hi Jeroen,
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I have been an avid MapInfo user, now a Vertical Mapper and Virtual Frontier user since January 1996. The bad news is that the Ontario, Nova Scotia and probably a few other governments have ESRI software in all schools that teach geography in High School (K-12 program). This means that universities which used to use MapInfo such as the one I went to switch to ESRI to stay consistent with the high school curriculum without even realizing the full potential of MapInfo. The head of the geography Department where I went to university said the initial price of Akeview was cheap but 3D "Anal-yst" and Spatial "Anal-yst" was very expensive. Now I now a lot of limitations of MapInfo, but hey it's way easier to learn and be productive on and that's what counts in the end. Stan Johnston Geologist |
