Foundation ... what's about: RELAX!

[Blaine Hackett]

All

I would have weighed in on this sooner but wanted to
let the dust clear a little.  I agree with Flavio that
we should relax.  However, going forward, now that we
are back in the loop, we must be diligent to get this
right.  Much depends on that.

I too am concerned specifically about the brand name
and I will tell you why.  As Flavio says, we will work
with what we have.  My company has put a lot of time
in to customizing MapServer apps for our clients. 
Many of my clients and would be clients use AutoCAD
heavily and so they will more than likely want us to
use something endorsed by AutoDesk.  The rub here is
that MSE will probably be different since it will be
driven and developed by AutoDesk not the MapServer
community.  I think that is a safe assumption
especially as the two products progress.  I have a
small company. It is very hard to hire people who have
all of the skill necessary to customize MapServer.  It
will make it that much harder now that there are two
versions

Now most of you are probably saying “Waaa! That is
business. Change with the times.”  That is all well
and good, but a simple name change, AutoDesk not using
MapServer, would have alleviated this problem.

Blaine

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Blaine Hackett
President, GIS RANGERS LLC

--- Flavio Hendry <flavio at TYDAC.CH> wrote:

> hi guys (did not remark any girls :-( ...)
> 
> what's about having a cool beer and just relax and
> see what happens in 
> the next few month. if MSE is a good product, people
> will use it, if 
> not, people will not use it. so what? and I am sure
> mapserver will 
> profit, one way or the other. and can it really get
> better then perfect 
> as it is already? :-)
> 
> and who cares about the name. we sell solutions, not
> names. to us it 
> does not matter if it is called arcims, mapxtreme or
> mapserver. it has 
> to work.
> 
> Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards
> Flavio Hendry
> 
>
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