GIS software
From OpenEGov
http://www.nvision2005.co.uk/ (front for CAPS and ESRI). Produce GIS software based on ARCGis
(see Slashdot:
I've been doing programming w/ ESRI software in some way or another for 6 years now, and if its taught me anything, its that ESRI surrounds itself with a barrier: No input from the community, no source going out, and definately no help with (let alone acknowledgement of) any bugs/issues with their software. They're a heavily proprietary sw company w/ a tendancy to ignore standards they didn't create (think a GIS equivalent of MS). Don't expect anything back from them.
etc., etc. 'worse than ms' seems to be universal conclusion.
For an open-source GIS argument: http://www.maptools.org/dl_scripts/redirector.php?path=omsug/osgis2004/Providing_decision_makers_with_arguments_beyond_cost_CCGIS.sxi
Need to find a good consolidated list of apps that do exist to point to.
GRASS is what everyone knows
