[Manifold-l] On screen digitizing of curves

[Simon Greener (SpatialDB Advisor)]

Springfield,

>          I lost the job due to the curve requirement and their need for  
> the data to be in an ESRI Geodatabase.  After much research, it looks as  
> if
> Manifold can write to a Personal Geodatabase (MDB file) but not create
> one.  I looked at the ESRI www on this and was overwhelmed by the
> jargon.  The Manifold help generally disparages the Geodatabase as  
> semantic trickery.
>
>          To come to the point: For those clients demanding a Geodatabase
> file, what can Manifold Professional do for them?

A strange demand (to my way of thinking). Why? A customer/client should be  
about defining the business problem and then chosing cost-effecitve  
software to meet that requirement/solve that problem. A customer/client  
should not be saying that a solution should use a particular  
format/product. With people like this you can't win.

What can Manifold do? Well, interact with existing personal geodatabases,  
yes, but the problem should be one of storing corporate data in a proper  
database (eg IBM, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and then choosing  
software that enables that choice.

regards
Simon
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