Comment Re:Engineering software and hardware drivers (Score 2) 243
Geodesists? ESRI shop?
Pretty much all of our spatial services run on Linux (they used to run on solaris). Even ArcGIS Server runs under linux (albeit through its wine compat layer)
Everyone uses GDAL/OGR, numpy, scipy, R in various combinations for analysis, and QGIS is reasonable popular for frontend work. Pretty much all batch processing happens under Linux.
But yeah, ArcGIS Desktop is a pretty hard thing for them to let go, it is the last thing...
Pretty much all of our spatial services run on Linux (they used to run on solaris). Even ArcGIS Server runs under linux (albeit through its wine compat layer)
Everyone uses GDAL/OGR, numpy, scipy, R in various combinations for analysis, and QGIS is reasonable popular for frontend work. Pretty much all batch processing happens under Linux.
But yeah, ArcGIS Desktop is a pretty hard thing for them to let go, it is the last thing...