[GRASSLIST:2073] Re: GRASS v ESRI

[Richard Ford]

So IMS is not a total partner to ArcInfo?

It seemed that way - I thought I must be reading or doing something
wrong.....

Richard.


----- Original Message -----
From: "B. Byars" <Bruce_Byars at baylor.edu>
To: "Richard Ford" <grass at cubok.com>
Cc: "Ben-Nes Michael" <miki at canaan.co.il>; "GrassList"
<GRASSLIST at baylor.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: [GRASSLIST:2070] Re: GRASS v ESRI


>
>
> > They are nice - but ArcIMS - is so inflexible and only runs on NT -
which is
> > a dog of a server OS.
>
> IMS also has a memory leak big enough to drive a truck through on NT.
We've
> documented this, contacted ESRI, and they have NOT responded about it.
They
> are supposed to have it fixed for the the newest version.  There are Linux
and
> Solaris
> versions that are more robust, but IMS is limited in what you can do.  It
> doesn't even
> support raster data.
>
> IMS also has issues with the robustness of the platform it runs on.  Start
> getting
> multiple users and you will have a crash.  In addition to the memory leak,
it's
> a
> memory hog.
>
> I do like SDE although it's like learning a totally new language.  If
anyone
> wants the
> pro-cons, I'll post them.
>
> Bruce
>
>
>