[Qgis-user] [Fwd: Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo]

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi all.
I think this is a good suggestion: does anybody feels like writing their successful
experience migrating to QGIS? I think we need not only "buig stuff", but a variety of
solutions and happy users, both from the enterprise, from the University, etc.
All the best.

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Thinking back to the early '90s when I was a MicroStation / Intergraph /
GDS user, the factor that attracted me across to using ESRI software at
the time was their marketing approach.

Where Bentley and Intergraph were focusing on technology and the
benefits of the latest widget, ESRI Australia were quietly selling their
software by focusing on how it was being used to solve real world
problems. The people managing the organisation at the time encouraged
organisations to show how they were solving their day to day problems
(oh, and by the way, we used product 'x' to do this). In Australia, ESRI
AU appear to have now reverted to focusing on the technology.

Perhaps that is something to try, demonstrating how the application of
the technology has solved problems, rather than focusing on the OSGeo
technology explicitly?

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Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc