Re:Open Source and general thoughts (Score 1)

But I tell you, nothing sells to suites better than those dopey zoomable-layered maps

Isn't that a lot of what this industry is about. Why did we go from mainframe to windows - so we could point and click and scroll and look at nice graphics. I'm not so sure the public really wants a list. The challenge will be in designing a map centric site that is intuitively navigable and provides all the information needed. Oh yeah, and they will want to add their own data to it without knowing how, just push a button and whalla, instant map (I guess that's where web agents will come in). Even though a list would give them the same information.