Simon Cropper
I am the Director and Principle Consultant of Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd.
I have been involved in the use of geospatial software since 1996, and have been using a wide range of desktop packages to access, analyze and print maps of flora, fauna and vegetation. I currently use gvSIG as my primary GIS solution.
I have a long history in the development of relational databases for the storage of plant and animal locational and monitoring data. I am very familiar with the use of Visual Foxpro, although I also program in a variety of other languages.
In 1993 published the book "Management of Endangered Plants" through CSIRO, encapsulating 5-years research on the monitoring and management of over 200 rare or threatened plant species in Victorian National Parks.
In recent times (2009-2010) I have moved from a totally Windows-based operating system to Ubuntu. Apart from some small legacy programs, written in Visual Foxpro (VFP), all core programs have been replaced by FOSS.
Educational material on using foss in Business
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