Tuesday, January 9. 2007

Fed UC: No Elephants in the Room

I recall a year or two ago when Google Maps/Earth were new and Microsoft was gearing up with Live Local/Virtual Earth. There was a discomfort in the GIS community as we tried to figure these new offerings out and consider their impact on our world. At this event I noticed, and several attendees mentioned to me, how calm things seemed. Google Earth was shown on stage and Microsoft's products were mentioned. There seemed to be an unstated acknowledgement that these tools are part of the technology marketplace, even if they are not GIS per se and that that's ok.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, Microsoft, ESRI Fed UC 07 at 22:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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