Comments on: GIS is California’s #1 Enterprise Technology Priority http://www.vector1media.com/spatialsustain/gis-is-californias-1-enterprise-technology-priority.html Promoting Spatial Design for a Sustainable Tomorrow Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:39:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cdc http://www.vector1media.com/spatialsustain/gis-is-californias-1-enterprise-technology-priority.html/comment-page-1#comment-17712 cdc Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:09:45 +0000 http://vector1media.com/spatialsustain/?p=3401#comment-17712 No, the California budget is. Without money there is no buying this way overpriced enterprise technology! How many California Cities and Agencies are sending their employees this year to the 2009 ESRI convention on a public paid junket? It is insane! And ESRI has got really balls charging the same outlandish prices for entrance to their conference. ESRI needs to wake-up and STOP biting the hand that feeds it, by overcharging muncipalities for their outdated software. Maybe Cities and California Agencies will start using cheaper CAD and GIS software and eliminate their maintenance packages and save the state some REAL money. California residents will soon wake-up to this practice of buying WAY OVERPRICED software and maintenance packages and put a stop to it. There is OPEN SOURCE FREE GIS software out there! Currently the residents are NOT getting their monies worth. I and others can't wait until Google releases real gis edit tools in Google Earth. What this would do is give the public a better and cheaper introduction to gis and what it can do. It would also lower software prices in the open market and kill monopolies. No, the California budget is. Without money there is no buying this way overpriced enterprise technology!

How many California Cities and Agencies are sending their employees this year to the 2009 ESRI convention on a public paid junket? It is insane!

And ESRI has got really balls charging the same outlandish prices for entrance to their conference.

ESRI needs to wake-up and STOP biting the hand that feeds it, by overcharging muncipalities for their outdated software. Maybe Cities and California Agencies will start using cheaper CAD and GIS software and eliminate their maintenance packages and save the state some REAL money.

California residents will soon wake-up to this practice of buying WAY OVERPRICED software and maintenance packages and put a stop to it. There is OPEN SOURCE FREE GIS software out there! Currently the residents are NOT getting their monies worth.

I and others can’t wait until Google releases real gis edit tools in Google Earth. What this would do is give the public a better and cheaper introduction to gis and what it can do. It would also lower software prices in the open market and kill monopolies.

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