[Geomedia-l] RE: Geomedia - AutoCAD support

[Heidi Wood]

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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:25:02 +0200

From: "Budschedl Harald" <Harald.Budschedl at mag.linz.at>

Subject: AW: [Geomedia-l] Geomedia - AutoCAD support

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The thing about GIS products is not "what are they capable of" per se.

Because this has ALWAYS have to be answered AFTER asking "what do you
want to do with it, and where are you putting the solution to work".

With our company (and surely there will be loads of others), the
Autodesk portion of application gets larger and larger. This is due to
price issues, but also due to the fact, that more people know how to
work with those products than with i.e. Geomedia (or ArcGIS for that
matter).

Geomedia has on the one side to "fit in", to have a chance to be
included in the working/planning processes in certain companies. On the
other side it has to stick out in respect of functionality and
economical pricing. As I see it in the moment, both targets are only
partially reached as of today.

To "fit in", there is too little compatibility to the nowadays common
products, not so much format wise, but concerning the support for all of
the versions of a format.

To "sick out", I personally think that the functionality of digitizing
and drafting lack certain ergonomic touches in comparison to other
"mainstream" products. Pricing stick out for sure, but not in a positive
way I might add.

As in the moment, certain problems (i posted them in an other mail

yesterday) impede our work seriously and the voices of the critics are
rising, which demand Geomedia being phased out in favor of an other
productline, for economical reasons.

I might be wrong, but I am more and more seriously under the impression,
even though we might not be a premium example, that Intergraph is taking
certain issues (i.e. competitive pricing, compatibility, and others
already mentioned) far too lightly. But as we all know: the market will
determine, if they prevail in what they do ... But as all companies
should know: WE (the customers) ARE the market.

Just letting off a little steam and frustration... :-) ... no harm done,
I hope CU Harry

 

 

RE:  

I think if you look at the cost of GeoMedia and maintenance of it and
then look at AutoDesk and maintenance of it

you will see that GeoMedia is a much better deal.

Digitizing tools aren't spectacular but with a little patience you can
get it done.

Also AutoDesk claims to be open source but in reality are they really?

 

 

Thanks,

Heidi Wood



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