Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise 2008 Roll Out - Community Driven = Enterprise
Solution
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| "The open source community plays an essential role in Autodesk's
| commitment to providing geospatial solutions that enable the convergence of
| data, knowledge and people," said Lisa Campbell, vice president, Autodesk
| Geospatial. "Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise 2008 reflects
| the open source community's input on the features most important to
| organizations, such as native support for Google Earth.
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http://www.amerisurv.com/content/view/4056/
Also a CNN brag:
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQTU05810072007-1.htm
They sell a lot of Linux machines as well, based on the story below.
Related:
Conference Review: Agents of Change (Autodesk UC 2006)
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| 'Non-proprietary' is key. Autodesk continues to embrace open source GIS,
| and the source code for Map Guide Open Source has been downloaded more than
| 23,000 times in its first year of availability. And Autodesk continues to
|be a sustaining sponsor of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo.org)
| the non-profit that "maintains these leading edge open source tools
| for public benefit" according to Executive Director Tyler Mitchell.
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http://www.amerisurv.com/content/view/3518/
Autodesk F1Q08 (Qtr End 4/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript
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| As customers continue to transition away from proprietary high-end
| SGI workstations, revenue from our Linux based solutions continues
| to show strong growth. In fact this quarter, nearly 90% of our
| systems product revenue was Linux based. Overall, I'm very
| pleased with our performance this quarter.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/35916?source=feed
Over 100 Additional Post-production Facilities Adopt Autodesk's Visual
Effects and Editing/Finishing Systems
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| In April 2006, Autodesk transitioned its visual effects and
| editing/finishing systems from SGI-based workstations to workstations
| running the Linux operating system.
|
| [...]
|
| "The migration of Autodesk systems to the Linux platform has been a
| great success," said Stig Gruman, Autodesk's Media & Entertainment
| vice president of systems. "This operating system allows Autodesk to
| take advantage of rapid, continuous improvements to commodity
| hardware components such as central processing units, graphics
| cards, and Infiniband networking technology."
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http://www.kpth.com/home/6888347.html
Open source creeps into mapping software
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| Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), MapGuide Open
| Source enables organizations to develop and distribute spatial and design
| data over the Web.
|
| [...]
|
| "We think there is a direct analogy between what's happening in Web
| mapping [software market], and what happened with Web servers in the
| beginning," Zeiss said, noting that the trend toward commoditization
| had convinced Autodesk to contribute MapGuide Open Source to the OSGF.
|
| "This was a strategic way of creating a much bigger market than we could
| have ever created with a closed-source product," he added.
|
| With an open source product on its cards, Zeiss said Autodesk is also
| following the footsteps of other open-source software vendors--that is,
| to charge for premium services and support.
|
| [...]
|
| "To open-source AutoCAD will be giving away valuable trade secrets to
| competitors. There's no prospect for doing that at all," he explained.
|
| IDC noted in a June 2006 report that it is too early to assess the
| long-term impact of Autodesk's open source strategy. "But initial
| indications are that geospatial users and the open source community are
| responding positively, perhaps to the point of shifting Web-based
| geospatial interfaces to a predominantly open source model," the
| analyst company said.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,61952140,00.htm
Australia and New Zealand Visual Effects Industries Support Autodesk's Move
to Linux-based Systems Products
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| Over the past two years, Autodesk has transitioned its Media and
| Entertainment systems products from running on proprietary,
| high-end SGI workstations to running on Linux-based personal
| computers (PCs). To date, more than 30 Autodesk Linux-based
| systems seats have been installed in Australia and New Zealand.
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http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=98344
Asia Pacific Digital Content Creators and Broadcasters Turn to Autodesk's
Linux-based Solutions
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| Over a dozen broadcasters and post-production facilities in the Asia
| Pacific region have recently embraced Autodesk, Inc.'s visual effects,
| editing/finishing and digital color-grading products running on the
| Linux operating system.
|
| [...]
|
| In its China Linux 2006-2010 Forecast and Analysis report, market
| research firm IDC estimates that China's Linux market will grow
| at a compound annual growth rate of 34 percent from 2006 to 2010.
| IDC also forecasts that by 2008, Linux-based personal computers
| (PCs) will account for more than 9 percent of PC unit shipments
| in Asia Pacific.
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http://www.dmnnewswire.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=110125
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