[Benchmarking] Re: FOSS4G wms shootout

[Jeff McKenna]

As discussed on IRC, most of us feel that a public statement is not 
required, but we will mention in the presentation that both ERDAS and 
ESRI were involved in discussions early on, and we hope that both will 
be involved in next year's exercise.

-jeff



Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Satish,
> I'm forwarding this email to the benchmarking email list, with your 
> comments snipped out. Feel free to add back in.
> 
> On IRC we have been discussing how to down play this announcement.
> I'll let others add their suggestions.
> 
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Thanks Satish,
>>
>> Our original press release went out to:
>> 1. Our osgeo-discuss email list, ~ 1000 Open Source Geospatial 
>> developers worldwide
>> 2. http://slashgeo.org with ~ 10,000 hits per day
>> 3. my blog with is incorporated into blog agregators, I'm not sure how 
>> widely.
>> 4. People interested in foss4g list, collected over the years, ~ 
>> 10,000 people.
>>
>> I propose to send your message back through the first 3 channels. 
>> Instead of going through the forth channel, I might just email to 
>> foss4g attendees. Does that fit with your suggestion?
>>
>>
>> Satish Sankaran wrote:
>>> <snip>
> 
>>> We would really appreciate it if you can provide a low-key release of 
>>> the following message.
>>>
>>>
>>> Message
>>>
>>> "ESRI has informed the organizers of the FOSS4G their inability to 
>>> continue participating in the wms shootout event because of other 
>>> priority obligations that have emerged and resource availability 
>>> constraints.   ESRI has informed us that they will nevertheless 
>>> continue their participation in the Climate Challenge Integration 
>>> Plugfest event at the conference.  While we would have liked to have 
>>> seen ESRI's participation in the event, we understand their 
>>> commitment to their users and appreciate their efforts to date. We 
>>> look forward to seeing them at FOSS4G in the weeks ahead."
>>>
>>>
>>> With kind regards,
>>>
>>> satish
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shorter at lisasoft.com] Sent: 
>>> Monday, October 12, 2009 7:16 PM
>>> To: Satish Sankaran
>>> Cc: jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com; Paul Ramsey; Frank Warmerdam
>>> Subject: Re: FOSS4G wms shootout
>>>
>>> Satish,
>>> I understand that this must have been a difficult decision for you, 
>>> and you wouldn't have taken it lightly.
>>>
>>> I also see this as a blow for both of us from a marketing perspective 
>>> as there has been a buzz created around the collaboration between 
>>> ESRI and Open Source communities here, and it will be noticed that 
>>> ESRI is not involved in this WMS Shootout.
>>>
>>> In particular, our joint WMS Shootout press release was broadcast 
>>> very widely.
>>>
>>> What options do we have available to us with regards to saving face 
>>> here?
>>> * Are we able to reduce scope of ESRI's participation in the shootout 
>>> to keep it manageable?
>>> * Is there someone else available to support ESRI?
>>> * Alternatively, is ESRI planning to make an announcement publicly, 
>>> or should we be doing that?
>>>
>>> Satish Sankaran wrote:
>>>   <snip>
>>>   
>>
>>
> 
> 


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Jeff McKenna
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