Inland Empire Small Business Growth Profiled in NYTimes

location based services

The Inland Empire is that part of southern California that includes San Bernardino and Riverside counties, home of ESRI. The New York Times article profiles a few smaller businesses before it gets around to ESRI. The segment on the company concludes:
Now it is about to start what Mr. Dangermond calls its "biggest effort ever," an interactive Internet edition of its geographic information systems. Customers, he says, "will post their specific applications on the global system, creating a cumulative, growing base of knowledge."First off, I have to appologize to those to whom I spoke this week at the Pennsylvania GIS conference. There I noted that you didn't read about ESRI in that (or other) major papers. Second, I have to note that ESRI, even in these couched terms for the public, continues to push ArcGIS Explorer, which will sure be part of this new shared database of data and services. Third, it's important to note that neither Google, nor Microsoft, nor any other new player is mentioned alongside ESRI suggesting its in another league, in addition to being in another geography.


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