Quotes of the Conference
“My stuff works with your stuff and I don’t care how the *&^$ it happens.”
- Carl Reed, CTO of OGC, paraphrasing an Australian government official, defining interoperability
“The biggest question we still get is about moving CAD data into GIS.”
- Don Murray of Safe Software commenting on interoperability challenges.
“The number of Java developers and the number of .Net developers of MapPoint are equal.”
“At this point I’d give the industry a C/C- on interoperability. If we are not up to a B+ in a year or two years, shame on us.”
Steve Lombardi of Microsoft
“The barriers to adoption of open source technology in geospatial are mental.”
Gary Lang, Autodesk
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/07 at 07:04 AM |
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