GEOVISE - Open Source GIS Solutions

This is the second installment of a series of posts on the subject of geospatial open source based on my talk at the CASCADOSS symposium. The topic for this post is vendor lock-in, or rather the widespread thought in the GIS world that open standards such as those promoted by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) will break vendor lock-in. In theory it should work: open standards should make GIS products interchangeable and interchangeability precludes vendor lock-in.

Recently I was invited to the CASCADOSS symposium to give my views on open source business models, specifically in the GIS market. For the presentation I developed some themes that might be of interest to others working on open source and/or GIS. I therefore decided to (finally) start putting this blog to some good use by publishing a series of posts that elaborate these themes. This is the first installment.

I'm the founder of Geovise. Occasionally, I will write here some of my thoughts on open source, GIS, Java and - of course - our projects

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