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

[Emilio Mayorga]

Regarding ArcGIS 9.1 and the "bundling" of the Data Interoperability 
extension: ESRI has made the 9.1 PR language really, really ambiguous, 
but I've asked someone from ESRI directly and no, this extension is not 
free. They simply have packaged it with the standard installation at 
9.1, so it's easier to install. The license cost has not changed.

It's still a powerful piece of software. Just not free.

-Emilio Mayorga


> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:53:15 +1000
> From: "Guy Carpenter" <guyc at atgis.com.au>
> Subject: RE: [postgis-users] Interested in PostGIS for a replacement
> 	to ArcSDE
> To: "'Anthony Bargnesi'" <abargnesi at gmail.com>,	"'PostGIS Users
> 	Discussion'" <postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net>
> Message-ID: <200507150253.j6F2r8YR014924 at atgisa.athertonsc.qld.gov.au>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> 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
>  
>  
>  
>   _____  
> 
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
> [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.