[OpenLayers-Dev] OL versus ESRI JS API

[Zac Spitzer]

>From a business perspective, an investment in OL doesn't restrict
you to one vendor, so that if in the future you decide you want to
stop paying heaps of money to a vendor and switch to a free solution, you can.

Proprietary stuff is so 1990's :)

Seriously, I have no idea about the ESRI JS stuff, mainly because of the
above reason

z


2008/9/30 Robert Sanson <SansonR at asurequality.com>:
> Well, to me it looks like ESRI only supports ESRI-sourced datasets. Very
> little support for other types of data sources. In contrast, OL supports a
> wide range of datasources.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robert
>
>>>> "Richard Greenwood" <richard.greenwood at gmail.com> 30/09/2008 4:01 p.m.
>>>> >>>
> Has anyone done a comparison of, or wish to comment on, OpenLayers
> versus ESRI's JavaScrip API? I am reasonably familiar with OpenLayers
> but completely new to the ESRI API so I am having difficulty comparing
> the two. I am looking for a very high level comparison for a
> presentation that I am preparing.
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
> --
> Richard Greenwood
> richard.greenwood at gmail.com
> www.greenwoodmap.com
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