[Gvsig_english] short poll: lyr import tool

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

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On 22/12/09 15:50, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
> On 22/12/09 14:02, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
>> Or, alternatively, they give up their exclusive support for redundant
>> ArcIMS/ArcSDE/File Geodatabase/MXD and LYR formats and (finally) 
>> implement support for open standards, MapServer, PostGIS, SQLite,
>> XML-based project files, and SLD. Fat chance for that to happen,
>> though, as a major part of their business model seems to be
>> promoting vendor lock-in effects.
> 
>> Ben
> 
> Exact!!
> 
> Having standards like SLD, Web Map Context, GML and so on, still
> relaying on privative formats is not a good idea at all if you don't
> want to be in a classic vendor lock in.
> 
> I know this is easy to say and hard to implement, but these are to be
> the kind of strategic decisions a good IT professional should try.
> 
> Cheers

a little not-so-off-topic funny video about ESRI :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b04pKO_698

merry christmas!


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Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía
http://www.prodevelop.es
tfno: +34 963 510 612

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