Background: Our group has full ESRI licenses and applications built with ArcGIS Desktop.
We are invested in the arc geodatabase itself and will not change that tier.
There is a proposal to switch from ARC applications to QGIS and QT with the use of the ESRI geodatabase.
There is a push for:
Being platform agnostic: Issues when windows (client side) moves OS.
True separation between software tiers - This argument is not strong for the case, as this can be accomplished in many ways. Better programming practices, policies etc.
Move away from a dependency on Microsoft: - currently code is written mostly in VB and C++. There is some python, but not much.
The background languages here is python and C++.
Question: Is there a benefit to making this switch? I do not believe that the licensing will change, but it can give us one source code for all platforms.
The push for the change is not due to the backend, but for the client interface and the license costs.
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