<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Brent, I haven't put this configuration through its paces, but have been able to connect to and at least render data out of SDE+PostGIS in qGIS and uDIG. We intend to revisit this later this year, so I'll be sure to watch for other responses. Eric Randall already posted the geobabble articles, which if I remember right are all pretty encouraging as well.<div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bodoni SvtyTwo ITC TT'; font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</div><div>C.C. Miller</div><div><div>Assistant Professor of Library Science</div><div>Geographic Information Systems Specialist</div></div><div>Purdue University Libraries</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://gis.lib.purdue.edu">http://gis.lib.purdue.edu</a></div><div><a href="feed://www4.lib.purdue.edu/gis/rss.php">feed://www4.lib.purdue.edu/gis/rss.php</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:ccmiller@purdue.edu">ccmiller@purdue.edu</a></div><div>765.496.9474</div><div><a href="mailto:IM=ccmiller@meebo.org">IM=ccmiller@meebo.org</a></div><div>AIM=cecmcgee</div><div><a href="mailto:Jabber=ccmiller@purdue.edu">Jabber=ccmiller@purdue.edu</a></div><div>Twitter=<a href="http://twitter.com/pugolian">http://twitter.com/pugolian</a></div><div><br></div><div>2215E EAS (CIVL)</div><div>Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Library (EAS)</div><div>Civil Engineering Building (CIVL)</div><div>550 Stadium Mall Drive</div><div>West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051</div>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div>On Oct 8, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Brent Wood wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>The institute I work for is a long term ESRI user, while I've been encouraging the use of FOSS GIS solutions for some years, with growing success.<br><br>We are looking at replacing our Arc/Oracle setup with Arc/PostGIS when we upgrade to 9.3 and I'm interested in any experiences anyone may have with this.<br><br>We are hoping that an Arc PostGIS geodtabase can be managed via Arc, but have the contents available as normal (read-only) PostGIS tables, etc via PostGIS client apps such as Geoserver, Mapserver, uDIG, QGIS, gvSIG, R-GDAL, etc.<br><br>Has anyone here had any experience with PostGIS as a 9.3 Geodatabase and how open the data is in these, or whether the geodatabase is inherently tied up with non-standard structures that don't work well with typical PostGIS clients?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br> Brent Wood<br>_______________________________________________<br>postgis-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net">postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net</a><br><a href="http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users">http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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