<div>The percentage of features used by users are minimal indeed. Most of users (here in Brazil too) use just a little bit of what its availuable.</div>
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<div>This tells us two things: software like arcview 9.2 (view license) are being more common. Only 'hardcore' techs use and explore the full arcgis info solution.</div>
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<div>Two: desktop GIS are becoming more and more rare. The trend is to have a server configuration, permissions, and a wide variety of people editing your data. So, FOOS4G is useful and a valid solution. As another post in postgis list, there are some problems with OS, but they are being solved, so i might choose OS for my next consultings.</div>
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<div>Arcs have great funcionality, but the price, support, etc, just makes me angry :P</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/28/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Miguel Montesinos</b> <<a href="mailto:mmontesinos@prodevelop.es">mmontesinos@prodevelop.es</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>Everytime I listen this discussion about proprietary vs. open-source software, a lot of feelings, impressions and opinions come up.</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>Talking about subjective things it's funny, but it doesn't help newcomers, nor it's professional. In the meanwhile the dark-side ;) keeps on spreading the same rumours.</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>Only through a serious comparison anybody can get the picture.</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>Does anybody have or know a base feature table, so that we could fill in with proprietary and OS fulfillment? [1] IMHO is quite generic, and does not include non-OS features. Non-ArcXXX should also be considered (I've also worked with non-ESRI products, and they offer really good features).</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>Anybody open to work in this direction?</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="+0"><span><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>This way, anybody will be able to compare with real and common informationn and I'm sure that </span></font></span></font></div>
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<p><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>One additional point. When migrating desktop GIS from proprietary to OS software, it's usual to hace different levels of users. A big number of users (80% according to some gvSIG studies) use a small percentage of available functionalities.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>So it is recommended that a gradual migration could be done.</span></font></p><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff" size="2">
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<p><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/Desktopgis_overview.htm" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><span>[1] </span>http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/Desktopgis_overview.htm</font></font></a></p>
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<p><span><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff" size="2">Regards</font></span></p></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andre Grobler<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 28, 2008 8:35 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [OSGeo-Discuss] OS and Proprietary<br>
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<p>Hi Micha & Dan re: Ease of use – This is great news! It really gets me excited, working with Q-GIS probably should have given me a clue.</p>
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<p>Puneet, in short neither, took out a loan to get ArcView and have to finish work from previous employer before I can start to earn money. Please note I didn't complain about "cost" of entry, just stated which choices I faced, which I think suited the discussion at that point.</p>
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