Comments on: It’s the community, stupid http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/10/23/its-the-community-stupid/ Geospatial Technology, Web Mapping and Spatial Services Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:09:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: anon http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/10/23/its-the-community-stupid/#comment-2748 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:39:28 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=1064#comment-2748 Lefty, are you saying that ESRI shouldn’t have bothered with AGX?

]]> By: Lefty http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/10/23/its-the-community-stupid/#comment-2747 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:28:19 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=1064#comment-2747 I can say it is 5 years late and 50 billion short. I was part of the beta and AGX is slow as ass and can’t handle even simple KMLs very well. That and AGS is so damn slow, deadly combination.

]]> By: its cots http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/10/23/its-the-community-stupid/#comment-2746 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:52:04 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=1064#comment-2746 that’s like saying microsoft word is a great COTS product made better by all the Word Documents out there.

In my post I was referring to community development of software features that make a mediocre product, such as arcview, usable and useful. If the point of this discussion is that community generated content is key to the success of arc explorer, then its possible this product is 5 years late and the vendor is like $50billion short.

]]> By: David Davis http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/10/23/its-the-community-stupid/#comment-2745 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:01:56 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=1064#comment-2745 Disagree? GE is a perfect example of a COTS product made better by a great community.

]]> By: its cots http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/10/23/its-the-community-stupid/#comment-2744 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:28:07 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=1064#comment-2744 I totally disagree. Maybe “the community makes the app” is true for a community developed application, but the justification for a COTS product is that the brains and financial backing of the vendor, which supposedly exceed what is ever possible in a community developed app is behind the application and supports it. ArcScripts and similar sites are nice, but if a COTS product provides simply a framework, and the good will of the community is required to actually make it work and thrive — what is it you are buying?

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