[Aust-NZ] GIS is dead [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Roppola, Antti - BRS]

 Tim wrote:

> OK, so mostly it's not high end GIS analysis by any means, but that 
> type of integration between spatial data and general IT systems is 
> where most of the action is, rather than traditional GIS. In other 
> words, we're seeing spatial become just another component of
enterprise solutions.

> Traditional proprietary GIS vendors from what I've seen by and large 
> haven't moved with the times (ok, I'm thinking of one vendor in 
> particular here...).  They're still pushing the "walled in garden"

Some personal thoughts...

Most of the major vendors have enthusiastically jumped on the enterprise
bandwagon. In the last couple of conferences I've been to, I've seen the
broad message has shifted from "spatial is special" to "spatial is not
special". I think the idea is that all of them would like to occupy the
same sort of niche that Oracle occupies in the corporate data centre
(GIS is part of the enterprise as long as it's our GIS). But those
aspirations are going to be a lot harder to realise in the current
market than in the late 80's (where software wasn't a commodity).

Their ability to keep a walled garden will depend to a great extent on
how compelling a proposition they can make. I'd suspect that the
incumbents (Google, MS, Oracle and the Burgeoning array of FOSS) will
not be too keen to let "them" build something like that uncontested.

Cheers,

Antti

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