[mapguide-users] Commercial vs. Open Source Functionality

[Andy Morsell]

I'm curious if any of those new products coming out for web GIS development
that you saw at the ESRI developer summit were either in part or in full
open source?  If not, any talk of anything going open source?
 

Andy Morsell, P.E. 
Spatial Integrators, Inc. 
http://www.SpatialGIS.com 

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From: Butler, Juan P [mailto:jpbutler at co.pinellas.fl.us] 
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 6:39 AM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] Commercial vs. Open Source Functionality



Shane:

 

I'm glad you brought this up.  I'm a little frustrated too.  I just came
back from ESRI's Developer summit and saw some nice, new products coming out
for Web GIS development.  The only thing is that most of the products
require ESRI datasources in which to display or interact with data.  With me
just having SDF/SHP capability now, I'm very interested in seeing what
Autodesk will be packaging in the commercial release and the overall
direction and involvement of Autodesk.   

 

I'm glad you asked and let's see if we get some answers.  

 

- Juan 

 

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From: Buscher, Shane [mailto:Shane.Buscher at nngco.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:45 AM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: [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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