[OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS?

[Gary Watry]

Would the U.S. EPA moving from ESRI to Open Source for their Watershed model help

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From: Cameron Shorter 
Date: Monday, January 28, 2008 21:39
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Case studies for migrating to Geospatial FOSS?
To: OSGeo Discussions 

> After giving a presentation recently about Geospatial Open Source, we<BR>> were asked whether there have been any case studies on migration to
> Geospatial Open Source.
> 
> The audience were very sympathetic to Open Source, but felt is would
> be much easier to sell to upper management if they could draw upon
> experiences of other agencies who have done something similar.
> 
> Can anyone point me to reports, or programs which have migrated from
> ESRI/Oracle applications (ArcGIS in particular) to Open Source
> equivalents?
> 
> -- 
> Cameron Shorter
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Gary Watry
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