ESRI Business Partner Conference Day 1

March 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments · ESRI

There really wasn’t that much going on yesterday other than a couple points Jack made on stage that will probably be built upon during the Dev Summit:

1. Jack says Microsoft and Google are the key to collaborative GIS using ArcGIS Server as the back-end. The hope is ArcGIS will integrate with everything moving forward.

2. ArcGIS 9.3 will be in everyone’s hands by June. That means that this will be a very sort beta period. Reading between the lines, this could mean that there are very few new features and this really will be a release that focuses on quality and documentation.

3. As others mentioned at the FedUC, Jack talked about Open API support. Want to use OpenLayers with ArcGIS Server, no problem.

4. The new Javascript API will increase production thousandfold. Now you can use the simple APIs to deploy quick and simple mapping websites and use the WebADF for the detailed heavy sites.

5. Did you use AML with ArcPlot? 9.4 might add the ability to script map production.

Now there was much more, but we’ll leave that for the DevSummit where we’ll learn the details.

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6 responses so far ↓

1 bender // Mar 17, 2008 at 11:11 am

enjoy bender2.0. features include: better stability, better performance and better documentation. bender. buzz up your life!!

(sounds like 9.3 is getting the connectivity release. 9.2 was the re-invention of the server-side. 9.3 is the look out of the door to the neighbourhood technologies).
2 Ruth // Mar 17, 2008 at 1:51 pm

1. Jack says Microsoft and Google are the key to collaborative GIS using ArcGIS Server as the back-end. The hope is ArcGIS will integrate with everything moving forward.

Slight translation:
They really got us good.
3 Paul Ramsey // Mar 17, 2008 at 1:58 pm

On point 3, James, did Jack allow the words “OpenLayers” to pass his lips, or are you interpolating?
4 Bill // Mar 17, 2008 at 5:30 pm

It was slightly different from the FedUC. I don’t recall Jack specifically mentioning OpenLayers (unless I missed it) this time like he did in DC but it was a slightly different audience. Maybe he’ll mention it at the dev summit.
5 Jacob // Mar 18, 2008 at 11:57 pm

James,

Could you elaborate on your “Pictometry and ArcGIS - very interesting” remark? Was it Pictometry’s extension in ArcMap and such or was ArcMap (or whatever ArcGIS software) loading the images directly?
6 James Fee // Mar 19, 2008 at 9:15 am

Jacob: Bringing Pictometry into ArcMap. I’m pretty sure they would be more than happy to license it in Server if you wished.