[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo maintained ArcSDE (EDN ?) instance

[Yves Moisan]

> 
> I think that the costs to doing this would likely be prohibitive, right?

I didn't know it was so costly.  The minimum subscription option (EDN
license) is $1500 per year but that comes with SDE (as ArcGIS Server I
believe) : http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/edn/pricing.html.  I
wouldn't want OSGeo to support that and there's probably no hope of
getting a freebie from ESRI.

> The software requires a license, and I expect ESRI wouldn't want to 
> encourage use like this?

> 
> (not to mention the idea of SAC being responsible for maintaining an
> ArcSDE instance seems costly for no tangible corresponding benefit to
> OSGeo.)

Thanx for your comments.

Yves