
The new buzz is about Manifold System. Here is what their news page says: "The next generation of Manifold System products has been issued as Release 7x. This new generation product provides a relatively limited number of new items in the release notes (about 100) but introduces a systematically re-engineered product that now optionally delivers full 64-bit, native mode functionality when run on x64 Windows systems running AMD or Intel x64 processors, including multi-core x64 processors. Manifold System is the first true 100% 64-bit Windows GIS!" I'm not the most knowledgable on computer architecture so I did a little research on 32-bit versus 64-bit processors. According to Wikipedia 64-bit architectures can indisputably make working with huge data sets easier. "The main disadvantage of 64-bit architectures is that relative to 32-bit architectures the same data occupies slightly more space in memory (due to swollen pointers and possibly other types and alignment padding). This increases the memory requirements of a given process and can have implications for efficient processor cache utilization." So, you can handle larger data sets, but you probably need more memory. Check it out at http://www.manifold.net/index.html.
5 comments:
wow, they really stole the Tennessee Titans football team logo.
http://www.nflnut.com/store/media/CMtitans.jpg
Both of them look like a fireball graphic used on race cars and Harleys years ago. Usually was a flaming 8 ball. Must be the same artist or used the same clip art library for starters.
Manifold is head and shoulders above ESRI products. I was using ArcGIS and ArcIMS for many years until I found out about Manifold 18 months ago. If you would like to save 20 to 30k on an enterprise GIS, go with Manifold. Check this out www.civil-info.com/key and www.civil-info.com/bloomep
Manifold is a great solution, by that price can be donde good aplications.
I know it was quite exciting when my best friend installed that software on my personal computer, he is brilliant!
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