[postgis] Re: ESRI client

[valentine]

> For the moment, we'll have to be happy with hacks around 
ESRI-imposed
> limitations, and hopefully will see some nice non-ESRI 
clients start to
> spring up. We've heard several folks on the list express an 
interest in
> these kinds of things in the past, so who knows what the 
future holds.

The latest versions of SDE are actually built on the features 
the DB provides (at least for DB2, Informix, and Oracle). This 
means you need to just tel esri you want them to support PG 
as a backend DB. File your feature request, and wait a couple 
of years. 

I might sugest a couple of hacks that would get around:
1) ArcIMS ArcAXL compatability. Support someone to write 
middleware to emulate an ArcIMS datasource.
2) Write MapObects code to extract from PG DB, and expose 
data as mapobject IMS server.
3) Use VB for apps/c interface to make the PG look like a data 
layer.
4) WMS service layers, and non-esri clients.

Basically, all the steps involve programming. If you want out of 
the box work with the esri investment, you are out of luck. You 
need to go kiss jacks rear. Esri has not made it easy to 
outside datasoruces. Just make it known to ESRI, that you are 
not happy about it. They don't turn on a dime, but there are 
people inside who do see the open point of view.


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