You can tell we are getting close because there seems to be an opening of information about 9.2 publicly. David Maguire lists what he views as the most significant features of the new release:
ArcGIS 9.2 has been released to manufacturing and will ship to all customers worldwide by the end of November. This project has been over 18 months in the making and represents a very significant milestone in the evolution of ArcGIS.
I think the big hits with this release will be; quality, ArcGIS On-line and standards and interoperability. We’ll see how server is received by the public when we get pricing and some demonstrations of the capabilities and how ArcGIS Explorer stacks up against Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D and NASA World Wind with its ArcGIS Server wild card.
7 responses so far ↓
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Sean Gillies
// Nov 8, 2006 at 12:36 pm
18 months for a point release? That’s even worse than me!
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caseahr
// Nov 9, 2006 at 8:09 am
My customer rep laid out the following prices for me on the phone the other day:
$10k AGS Basic - (ArcSDE w/ extras)
$20k AGS Standard - (ArcSDE w/Web services stuff)
$40k AGS Advanced - Everything plus spatial analysis/models on the web
Day to day, my bummed-out-ness increases as I contemplate that $40k price tag. I really, really want that model publishing…
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Paul Petersen
// Nov 9, 2006 at 8:37 am
That’s the first I’ve seen of prices for AGS. Ouch! But not surprising. It is a bummer when you go to conference sessions and read articles about a really cool new tool or piece of software, and then realize that you will never actually get to use it because of price.
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Dave
// Nov 9, 2006 at 10:51 am
My rep also clarified that ArcSDE with the AGS Basic is limited to SQLPersonal with the database size limits associated therewith.
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caseahr
// Nov 9, 2006 at 10:55 am
Dave,
You might want to check again on that. The AGS Basic Workgroup edition may be limited that way, but I don’t think AGS Basic Enterprise is.
Don’t you love all of this crazy Microsoft-esque licensing terminology?
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Dave
// Nov 9, 2006 at 12:27 pm
caseahr,
I gotta say “No” on the licensing. But you knew that…
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caseahr
// Nov 15, 2006 at 11:45 am
Finally found a detailed matrix of version differences for AGS 9.2.
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisserver/about/functionality-matrix.pdf
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