Common GIS Tasks in Manifold & ArcGIS

Here is a link to a great paper from Cornell comparing the performance of common GIS tasks in Manifold 6 & ArcGIS 8.3

The information is slightly out of date now that Manifold is on version 7 & the release of ArcGIS 9.2 is immenent.

I haven’t had a chance to do as much comparing & testing this week as I had hoped. Hopefully this should answer some questions for those who are curious about what Manifold is really like but don’t want to spend ~$250 just to find out.