Speaking at Korem's Geodiffusion conference, Pitney Bowes Software president, Mike Hickey, struck a resonant chord when he explained that "the explosion of Neogeography is driving awareness [and] collaborative data consolidation [but it] isn't GIS." Hickey explained that while neogeography is focused on "Where" there is no data creation and no spatial analysis, an essentially visually useful concept that has helped "cross the chasm from early adopters to an early majority."As a former vendor himself, I'm sure Peter recognizes the core appeal here is to the emotional hind-brain of all the suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers who have already dropped coin for MapInfo software. Hickey is reassuring his customers that neography is (like open source software) fundamentally inferior to real "GIS" because it doesn't cost enough money.
—All Points Blog
MapInfo makes Real GIS Software™, and you can tell, because it has a Real Big Pricetag. I know Oracle must be a Great Database®, because it costs a cool 1/4 million dollars to deploy on a 20 thousand dollar dual-quad server.
Try to remember folks, it's not how big your tool is, it's what you do with it that counts.
3 comments:
Thank you, Paul. You have made my day!
I guess I better not ask what Real Women use.
More than GIS Experts, ESRI people are Sales & Marketing Experts....Hats off to people who can make spend $50,000 in a "final solution" when you can do that with $1,000
Who is the culprit? The "animal"? or the one that feeds it?
Thanks. Good entry!
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