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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I looked into this a while ago, and at that time (at ArcGIS
9.0)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>you would have had to license the Data
Interoperability</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Extensions </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>for your ESRI
ArcGIS 9.0 clients to be able</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>to access PostGIS.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>That extension was going to cost us AU$2500 per seat,
and it</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>had a number of obvious bugs, so it was not an attractive
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005></SPAN><SPAN
class=000264102-15072005></SPAN><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2>r<SPAN class=000264102-15072005>oute.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>With the 9.1 release, ESRI have bundled the Data
Interoperability</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Package into the core product - no extra licensing
fee</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Also Safe Software (authors of the Interop.
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>extension) </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>were busily working on fixes to the bugs in the extension
last year.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I haven't tried using PostGIS from ArcGIS 9.1, but it
sounds like all of the</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>pieces may be in place to make it work.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Cheers,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Guy Carpenter</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Atherton Tablelands GIS</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=000264102-15072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://atgis.com.au">http://atgis.com.au</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net
[mailto:postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Anthony Bargnesi<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, 14 July 2005 9:32
AM<BR><B>To:</B> postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[postgis-users] Interested in PostGIS for a replacement to
ArcSDE<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Hello,<BR><BR>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?<BR><BR>Thank
you,<BR><BR>Anthony Bargnesi<BR>Institute of Information Technology,
Inc.<BR></BODY></HTML>