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ArcGIS Server 9.2 News and Licensing

posted by Satri on Monday November 20, @11:29AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the not-everything-you'd-like-to-know dept.
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There's been a lot of very interesting discussing regarding ArcGIS Server 9.2 lately. You can start with the ArcGIS Server Functionality Matrix [pdf] (via Spatially Adjusted) see also this previous story). Then it is worthed to read Dave Bouwman's entry on the fine print of ArcGIS Server licensing, also discussed by Spatially Adjusted. If ArcGIS Server is your daily tool, see the Manager Video about it. From Dave Bouwman's entry: "So - where are we. If you want to design a system the way you have it running today - you're looking a 3 times the base pricing for server - this will get you ArcSDE running as a service on a separate DBMS (assuming 2 sockets) and the web ADF running on it's own server (also 2 sockets). [...] Creating a tile cache is not magic that can only be done by ESRI. Brian Flood has implemented this in the next version of Arc2Earth (pro edition costs $299). Slap OpenLayers (free) in front of that, and you've got the same thing running for a tiny fraction of the cost."

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