[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source vs Closed source

[Frans Thamura]

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we still have a lot of question, how good is OSGEo product :) which we know
they are opensource..vs ESRI
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Bob Basques <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>wrote:

>  Lester,
>
>  I've already found a bunch of stuff, just trying to figure out the
> authority aspects, do the writers know what they are talking about, etc,
> need to pass things on to people that don't know or want to know the
> details, but are interested in savings (which is my primary sales focus, so
> far)
>
>  We've had OpenSource software in place in the office for a number of
> years, but not in an end user exposed location, which is where this
> disucussion is aimed at..
>
>  This would be the early stage stuff, as in, what is OpenSource, sounds
> too good to be true sort of replies (Literally!!).
>
>  bobb
>
>
>
>
>
> >>> Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Bob Basques wrote:
> > We've got a discussion going on in the office about the subject line.  I
> > was wondering if folks here had any pointers to online information, both
> > from a superficial view (low detail level, IE Manager speak) as well as
> > some somewhat higher level information about costs, in the short term/
> > long term, etc.
>
> How long is a piece of string? ..... ;)
> What sort of information are you looking for? There is a growing catalog of
> freely available data from various sources. The UK government has just
> released
> some nice raster and tabular data, and the US government makes conciderable
> more
> freely available. And there are plenty of open source software packages
> that
> will work with it.
>
> So what are you looking for?
>
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