ESRI is in the news, but not in a manner it would want. (ESRI and the ESRI Logo are licensed trademarks of Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.) The company’s founder and the man many consider the inspiration behind GIS, Jack Dangermond, is cited in an Associated Press (AP) report yesterday about a Federal investigation into […]

I was talking to a client yesterday about promoting GIS to the executives at his organization. He made the analogy of executive behavior when e-mail first came out. Many executives asked why they would need e-mail since secretaries do all that. (Sad to say some executives still have their administrative assistants PRINT their e-mails, hand […]