Both Adena and Jason hit the big points about this bundle release, but I thought I’d chime in. From the press release:
“Incorporating Google Earth Pro into our Autodesk Government Geospatial Solution creates a complete workflow for government agencies,” said Dave Rhodes, vice president of Autodesk Government. “The powerful combination enables professional GIS staff to more easily share complex, precision data with a wide audience of non-technical colleagues and partners that need to leverage that data in a variety of geospatially-enabled business projects.”
Kinda sounds like Autodesk is answering ArcGIS 9.2 (specifically ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Explorer) and at a cheaper price. I wonder how long until this bundle is available for non-governmental organizations.
Oh and check out that press release, Autodesk has been working on the Web 2.0 lingo.
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Doug
// Aug 24, 2006 at 10:32 am
One kind of has to wonder why Autodesk is rolling out this bundle to government users before private users. My understanding is that ESRI is really well entrenched in the .gov space, moreso than for private users. Perhaps this is to hold their ground in the gov space? Maybe this is a trial rollot before the bundle is given to private users? Thoughts?
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