AW: [mapguide-users] Commercial vs. Open Source Functionality

[Thomas Grosser]

Dear Shane,
 
I think this is the right forum to ask - and a lot of people are very interested in the answers ... me too ! And I think there a quiet enough people of Autodesk also reading this discussion list.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen 

Thomas Grosser 
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Von: Buscher, Shane [mailto:Shane.Buscher at nngco.com] 
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. März 2006 14:45
An: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Betreff: [mapguide-users] Commercial vs. Open Source Functionality



All right, I'm a little frustrated at this point trying to figure out the current direction of MapGuide OS and MapGuide Commercial.  I'm trying to choose between several competing technologies in the web mapping arena, including ArcIMS, MapGuide OS, MapGuide Commercial, and MapServer.  

1.  Is the MapGuide Studio product going to become strictly a commercial product?  I see it expires in October.  If so, what authoring tool is going to be made available for the OS users, if any?

2. There's a lot of vaporware advertising going on, especially in the data provider category.  I have SQL Server,  ArcSDE, and WMS consumption requirements.  These are documented as being supported, but you quickly realize they are not post-install.  Are these functionalities only going to be made available in the Commercial product?  This is what it seems. 

What is the general direction for both OS and Commercial?  Are they going to be one in the same, with only support being the difference between the two?  Or, will Autodesk just add functionality independently of the OS project, leaving the open source community to catch up? 

Maybe this is not the right forum to ask these questions, but I don't know where else to ask.  It's important to know the direction of these products, as I'm looking for a long term solution.

Thanks in advance. 

Shane Buscher 
GIS/Compliance Systems 
Northern Natural Gas 
402.398.7841 

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