James Fee GIS Blog

I ran into an interesting discussion today with some users at a client site today.  It seems while the GIS manager would just love to migrate everyone to ArcGIS 9.1, he just can’t seem to get people to move off of ArcView 3.x.  I did a little demo to show them how much easier it was to work with files as well as the model builder to help them perform data analysis, but it didn’t seem to sink in.  I also explained how they were moving to Geodatabases and ArcSDE and how ArcView 3.x wouldn’t be able to interact with those formats.  The response?  Let the GIS manager convert them to shapefile for us. Lets just say that GIS manager wasn’t too thrilled about that response.  Looks like I might have to do some Avenue programming for this client. 

ArcView 3.x is the program that just won’t die.