Thank you Eric,
Thank You Dimitri,

i am very thankful to you for enlightening me and sharing with me the vast experience you have. i also appreciate that you took some time out to answer my post.

Manifold looks interesting from what Dimitri says and ESRI is very popular too. I was initially talking about a "GIS" then the concept evolve towards GIS enabled web application. I have some knowledge on web application programming using ASP, sql server, a little oracle, java etc...

Can you please suggest me some good books which may help me understand Manifold and or ESRI. It would be nice to have some books/ebooks which may show me some step by step practice so that i may learn quickly and implement my project. I am keen on learning new technologies.

Please do reply.

Thank you
- Prakash