Is the user interface a dressed up Linux/UNIX command line interface?
Surprisingly many GIS products, even those that sell for thousands of dollars, include numerous instances of “living-fossil” user-interface technology. Coelacanths were thought to be extinct for tens of millions of years before a live specimen was caught in the Indian Ocean. UNIX command line interfaces (even within UNIX!) should also be extinct, so don’t let one pop up inside your GIS package. Insist on a user interface like Manifold’s that harnesses the visual power of Microsoft’s Windows metaphor, all the time. Does the product run 64-bit when run in 64-bit Windows? 64-bit Windows was introduced years ago and has now become a critical part of professional and enterprise computing. Believe it or not, some vendors say they “support 64-bit Windows” when in actual fact they do not have 64-bit code! Instead, they are simply selling 32-bit products that run in 32-bit emulation mode within 64-bit Windows systems. If the vendor does not support 64-bit Windows editions with true, 64-bit code
