uDig ain’t ArcGIS quite yet.
作者: 赵博 • 2006 年 11 月 13 日 • 技术主义 • 暂无评论
I picked the sentence “uDig ain’t ArcGIS quite yet.”from Paul Ramsey’s blog. A certain user picked up udig to conclude that his shop would not move to the opensource enviornment in the near future.
Paul said that If you want people to switch you need to make the transition as painless as possible. Firefox got people to switch to IE by
- *Making better software
- *Not making user learn a new UI for interacting with the web
- *importing all their IE favorites
- *THEN building in cool new features that keep people around
So, uDig Team have to do is make something better than ArcGIS, but not so much better that it is not familiar to the existing user base, that works transparently with all their existing data and presumably their .mxd files too. And meanwhile give it away for free.
Paul said, Open source is not about users, it is about developers. It is only about users in so far as users become sufficiently engaged in the project that they either become developers themselves, or support developers through careful bug finding or documentation.
At last, Paul describe the correct models by his point of view. He said that the FireFox or Open Office are incorrect modles, because they are something a litte aberrate. Paul said the correct models are Linux, Apache, Perl, PostgreSQL，not user-friendly, but still very useful.
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