The following is a sampling of the positive testimonials which have been
received during the last 6 weeks. Of course we also received a couple of
complaints during the same period. Further support has been demonstrated in
the last quarter in a prepaid subscription extending to 1997 up to and
including V5.70. Also the two earliest and lowest serial number MIPS
of 7 years ago have been continually and continuously updated through V4.70.
From an Engineering Firm in Australia.
"This product is winning us a huge amount of work and the company just
committed to establishing a National Center of Excellence in GIS in this
office. We are also having 4 persons trained by [a MicroImages
Representative]. Much praise for [that Representative's] abilities and
support."
From a Geologist in Australia.
"I have been absent in the field for a week, using TNTmips 4.6
very successfully on a laptop to guide our work."
From an International Representative.
"I was a bit worried when I first started this that I would be cutting
my own throat by selling the means to do the work, i.e. TNTmips but am
starting to see now with [client names] i.e. only two licenses that the
potential consulting and training work that will be generated is going to be
unlimited."
From an International Representative.
"I upgraded to a Pentium/66 the other day and can really appreciate the
difference. This will free up a lot of time and enable me to do a lot more
marketing, consulting, and so on."
From an International Representative.
"I spent a half day last week playing around with TNTmips on an
SGI workstation and it was very impressive as far as speed goes. They must
have had one of the faster RISC processors on board as all the windows
processes in TNTmips (e.g. opening 2D-display) seemed to be almost in
real time to 4 or 5 seconds which would really boost productivity. The
multitasking was also very impressive. I have now seen TNTmips running
on an SGI, SunSPARC and a Data General and the SGI seemed to outperform them
all. I like the SGI but only because I haven't seen TNTmips run on the
other workstations besides the Sun and DG. The SGI seems to have very powerful
graphics capability. I should decide on a preferred workstation just in case
someone asks."
From a Consultant visiting a 3rd World Site.
"They had little experience with GISs and that little was on
systems like Arcinfo which frightened them. They were very impressed by
TNTmips even though I didn't have any specific data to play with and had
to rely on the data sets you provide with the distribution CD-ROMs."
From a Domestic Reseller.
"When I arrived to start training, the assembled [client] staff (mostly
consultants) was in the middle of running the TNTmips Map and Poster
Layout process to print a quarter Landsat TM scene (raster size: about 3300
lines and 3300 columns with RGB = TM5 TM7 TM1 with a map grid and scale
bars) to their HP 650C color printer. They had started the process at 9 AM and
it was still running when I arrived at 1:30 PM (4 hours and 30 minutes). It
soon finished (quit without completion). Also, [they] said it was taking 45
minutes to display (Disp2D) the same raster (RGB in full). In addition
there were many GPFs. So you can see why I was quite exasperated when I called
you that afternoon. I want to thank you and your staff for the prompt help
given (by Fed Express and by FAX). The performance improvement was
remarkable."
"To make a long story short: by the time I finished implementing your
changes to their setup Friday afternoon and again on Saturday, these miserable
initial performance indicators had changed drastically as follows: 28 minutes
to prepare (17 minutes for a dithered printable raster) and to print (11
minutes for the HP650) the same TM quarter scene with map grid, scale bar, and
3 CAD overlays. Plus, displaying (in full) now took only 32 seconds (if the
source was on hard disk). This was on a Pentium (brand unknown having 32 MB of
RAM, a gigabyte hard drive, and a Matrox MGA+ graphics board)."