[postgis-users] Interested in PostGIS for a replacement to ArcSDE

[Guy Carpenter]

I looked into this a while ago, and at that time (at ArcGIS 9.0)
you would have had to license the Data Interoperability
Extensions for your ESRI ArcGIS 9.0 clients to be able
to access PostGIS.
 
That extension was going to cost us AU$2500 per seat, and it
had a number of obvious bugs, so it was not an attractive 
route.
 
With the 9.1 release, ESRI have bundled the Data Interoperability
Package into the core product - no extra licensing fee.
Also Safe Software (authors of the Interop. extension) 
were busily working on fixes to the bugs in the extension last year.
 
I haven't tried using PostGIS from ArcGIS 9.1, but it sounds like all of the
pieces may be in place to make it work.
 
Cheers,
Guy Carpenter
Atherton Tablelands GIS
http://atgis.com.au
 
 
 
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[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Anthony
Bargnesi
Sent: Thursday, 14 July 2005 9:32 AM
To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
Subject: [postgis-users] Interested in PostGIS for a replacement to ArcSDE


Hello,

My company uses ArcSDE on an Oracle backend.  However we would like to lower
our third party costs as each customer requires an Oracle database and SDE
license.  Our company was interested in using PostGIS to replace our ArcSDE
solution.  What costs would be involved with deploying a PostGIS (using
Postgres rdbms) solution to a customer?

Thank you,

Anthony Bargnesi
Institute of Information Technology, Inc.

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