Besides the announcement that the next version of C&G will be included within Carlson Survey there was another big announcement.
Brent Jones of ESRI did a fabulous job as keynote speaker at the conference. Among the things he announced was:
... an upcoming grant program to be offered by ESRI for every Carlson IntelliCAD user. "ESRI is very supportive of Carlson’s development on IntelliCAD and we want to support your users," said Jones of this specialized grant program being developed exclusively for Carlson IntelliCAD users. "We want to help surveyors leverage their existing resources to help in the GIS market." With this offer Carlson IntelliCAD users will be able to access GIS technology and jump-start a GIS practice.
Hummm. Why is that important to CG users? With this next release, CG users will be Carlson IntelliCAD users. Well, you will be a Carlson IntelliCAD user unless you choose to upgrade to Carlson with the AutoCAD OEM embedded.
Ok, so what exactly does the "grant program" mean? Who exactly will qualify? When will this happen? Which ArcView products are involved? At this point, I can not say. The final details are being worked out.
What I can say is, the association of Carlson and ESRI should lead to really great things for us users.
Larry P
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Big News for CG Users
I just returned from the 2nd Carlson Users conference. There is big news for CG Users.
A few years ago Bruce Carlson and I had a conversation in his office. He told me it made no sense to pay different sets of programmers to solve exactly the same problems. Of course, he was right. The problem was how to integrate the Carlson approach to solving a survey problem and the C&G approach to solving those same problems. I'll admit, I was skeptical.
So when will the two products become one? It took some time, but the day is fast approaching. Carlson announced that the next version of Carlson Survey will include C&G software. That's right. Next time you upgrade your C&G software you will receive both C&G and Carlson Survey for the same price.
For us long term devotees of C&G software this might seem like a bad thing. It isn't. In fact, this is one of the best things I've heard lately. With many software upgrades the users receives a hand full of new routines and some limited improvements in others. When the user upgrades this time it will come with tons of new tools. Will it take some time to learn to take advantage of all the new routines? Yes. But the fact we have the new tools puts the power in the hands of us users. I like that. I hope you will too.
This leaves us with an important question. When will the new version of Carlson Survey (with CG Survey) be released? The "official" word is they hope to release by sometime in June. Of course, the programmers hesitate to speculate on release dates. They know well how unforeseen problems can cause needed delays. I personally believe we users can expect to see something in our hands sometime this summer. That is exciting news.
Larry P
A few years ago Bruce Carlson and I had a conversation in his office. He told me it made no sense to pay different sets of programmers to solve exactly the same problems. Of course, he was right. The problem was how to integrate the Carlson approach to solving a survey problem and the C&G approach to solving those same problems. I'll admit, I was skeptical.
So when will the two products become one? It took some time, but the day is fast approaching. Carlson announced that the next version of Carlson Survey will include C&G software. That's right. Next time you upgrade your C&G software you will receive both C&G and Carlson Survey for the same price.
For us long term devotees of C&G software this might seem like a bad thing. It isn't. In fact, this is one of the best things I've heard lately. With many software upgrades the users receives a hand full of new routines and some limited improvements in others. When the user upgrades this time it will come with tons of new tools. Will it take some time to learn to take advantage of all the new routines? Yes. But the fact we have the new tools puts the power in the hands of us users. I like that. I hope you will too.
This leaves us with an important question. When will the new version of Carlson Survey (with CG Survey) be released? The "official" word is they hope to release by sometime in June. Of course, the programmers hesitate to speculate on release dates. They know well how unforeseen problems can cause needed delays. I personally believe we users can expect to see something in our hands sometime this summer. That is exciting news.
Larry P
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